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AGoodMan

I strongly agree with this thread. This is mostly anecdotal (and could vary by difficulty, and could be outdated), but I feel like the quiz bowl religion category likes to focus on "practice" (e.g. explicitly so in MRNA II ) as opposed to the texts, which is how we end up with Christianity ...

AGoodMan

I consider myself a pretty good Bible player...I think the central dilemma, which is kind of what Andrew is getting at more eloquently than me, is that questions on the Bible can reward surface level reading of the texts (the Bible as a kind of literature, in which events, characters ...

AGoodMan

I agree

AGoodMan

-i thought the criminal law tossup was very strange, partially because the answerspace was very small from a very early point. genuinely, how many "fields of law" (iirc the indicator) are there? it was pretty clear to me, and likely others, what it was talking about a line or two in, but waffled ...

AGoodMan

Before talking about specific questions, I want to say up top that I really enjoyed this set overall. After not having played Regs for 5 years, this set made me get the quiz bowl itch again. -i thought the criminal law tossup was very strange, partially because the answerspace was very small from a ...

AGoodMan

I'll be starting law school at Harvard in the fall. I want to play, though will likely take it slow during 1L.

AGoodMan

Definitely agree with Andrew here. This is why I personally don't find inheriting cards from other people to be very helpful, as cards tend to be most useful as a retention tool (i.e. not the "learning" tool) for facts that I had already learned to some degree via reading and taking notes. In terms ...

AGoodMan

Random, but if anyone is driving up to UMD from within DC tomorrow for Jordan’s side event, could I hitch a ride with them? I’m also willing to split Ubers.

AGoodMan

Restitutor27 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 7:03 am Will read on Tuesday 18th July, no change to time. Let me know if you want to play and can't make it

I think I'll be about 30 minutes late but would like to play. Is there a Discord channel for it?

AGoodMan

Luke Minton's debut HSNCT performance in his senior year (2016) should be up there. I really think he could have been an elite player if he cared about quiz bowl even a little bit.

AGoodMan

If we treat "skill as a three- or four-dot player while still in high school" as a metric something like "most able to scale to arbitrarily high difficulties," Tommy Casalaspi was obviously on a different plane than everyone else when it came to reading, writing, and buzzing on arbitrarily ...

AGoodMan

I acknowledge that the Jacob/Esau kiss is difficult to isolate given the scriptural reference, but I would have to disagree about the Deuteronomy clue. Moses having received the kiss of God at the moment of his death is reasonably well known and seemed suitable for a late power clue. Google ...

AGoodMan

The philosophy tossups in this set felt consistently hard to power. I felt this way about some of the history tossups, but I am careful to bring it up as I'm by no means a very competitive history player at this difficulty level (especially compared to the level of knowledge that JinAh has in ...

AGoodMan

Can I see the Koreans (Christianity) bonus? First, I thought the Vineyard movement part was worded confusingly (something about the Vineyard movement influencing the vast majority of Korean American Christians? This really threw me off as that has, experientially, not really been the case for me or ...

AGoodMan

Can I see the Koreans (Christianity) bonus? First, I thought the Vineyard movement part was worded confusingly (something about the Vineyard movement influencing the vast majority of Korean American Christians? This really threw me off as that has, experientially, not really been the case for me or ...

AGoodMan

I just saw the Bahai tossup, which says The book The Dawn-Breakers describes this religion’s eighteen "Letters of the Living." I must admit much of my Bahai knowledge comes from Wikipedia, but it seems like the Letters of the Living refer to the first 18 followers of the Bab, whose religion is c ...

AGoodMan

I recognize that it's pretty hard to schedule mirrors this semester due to covid , but with mirrors starting in around 5 weeks, do you know if other mirrors are getting scheduled (selfishly, a northeast mirror in particular)? Wanted to bump this, as I wouldn't mind traveling to play this with ...

AGoodMan

Off the top of my head, without having done serious research, these sets come to mind: High school : 2015 CALI 2016 PACE NSC 2019 BLAST 2018 ACF Fall 2019 ACF Fall College : 2016 Terrapin 2017 ACF Regionals I wouldn't consider myself competitive at the upper level of the collegiate canon, so I can't ...

AGoodMan

I missed this during the initial look-through of questions, but I think the original sin TU mentions near FTP that baptism gets rids of original sin. This is to my knowledge primarily a Catholic doctrine not universally shared by other streams of Christianity. I would suggest 1) caveating the clue ...

AGoodMan

4. Seth Teitler is just such a calm, steady presence. You know like how in Star Trek V, Spock's half-brother can like put a hand on someone's shoulder and calm them down? That's what Seth does on teams. I have to echo this comment about Seth. I've played only one tournament with him, when we were ...

AGoodMan

I'm moving to DC in May to start full-time work and plan on playing open tournaments and staffing events in the area.

AGoodMan

First, I want to thank all the editors and (especially) the new writers for creating a very enjoyable set! I think overall, I had a better experience on this year's edition than last year. I also really appreciate the passion and the workrate of the new writers, which should not be glossed over. I ...

AGoodMan

I don't think it's right to call "Arirang" the "Korean national anthem" -- there is no unified Korean government and neither North or South Korea's official national anthem is "Arirang." My understanding is that the song is of similar stature to "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in Korea but without any ...

AGoodMan

1. What is the best way to study for HSNCT, NHBB Nats and other hard high school tournaments? I am having a hard time right now. I would do a good amount of packet reading + find some way of collecting and retaining information. Perhaps start at HS regular difficulty (WHAQ, CALI, etc.) and then ...

AGoodMan

Kouign Amann wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 11:12 pm so you’re telling us that a guy named moses did most of the work but couldn’t quite see the job through to the end?

hmm

So far he has not struck me with his rod twice in anger.

AGoodMan

Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 5:34 pm Will it take longer for this set to be produced than it took for the Israelites to make it through the wilderness?

(This is intended as humor--I am more interested in playing the set in a summer anyway.)

Basically, Moses did his share and I am being lazy and experiencing writer burnout.

AGoodMan

The only question I remember not liking was the tossup on Tlön, because the way it played it out in all instances I was aware involved early recognition of what story was being described (since there's a limited pool of details from which the question could draw), followed by a testing of the ...

AGoodMan

Round 13 wrote: 4. ... Leaders who retired to monasteries during this period engaged in “cloistered rule”.
ANSWER: Heian <BM, World History>

This clue is not uniquely identifying, as emperors abdicated and became cloistered all the way until the 1600s.

AGoodMan

This was very mature of you to post, and I'm sure the people who underwent negative experiences appreciate this statement, but I hope you're not too hard on yourself. Reading this as an unrelated 3rd-party, you were much more responsive and levelheaded than many other people in similar situations ...

AGoodMan

Will the set have powers?

AGoodMan

People shouldn't sleep on Raymond Wang from Ithaca; he's especially killer on literature as I remember from our HFT mirror . Basil Sousonis is also very, very good from personal observation at HFT . I reckon he's top 30. I've never seen Uni Lab play, but the fact that not one, but two high schoolers ...

AGoodMan

I am kind of late to this because I forgot discussion forums were a thing, but I have a few thoughts about some of the questions. I mentioned this to Jacob already, but I really enjoyed the water and peace religion tossups. Early clues of both asked about very popular hymns that I don't think quiz ...

AGoodMan

Harvard A While Harvard's teams have changed roster many times this year, I'd like to think Harvard's "real" A team would have either been: Jason Golfinos / Michael Yue / Thomas Gioia / Kelvin Li (which was the EFT team ), or sub out Thomas for Laurence Li or Ricky Li. Kelvin is one of the best ...

AGoodMan

After being inspired by my inimitable friend Michael Yue and his score clue parsing prowess, I'm excited to announce BoPSS , or Buzz on Popular Song Scores . The packet aims to be something similar to what Michael wrote for the Internet Charity Tournament, but for "pop" music as defined broadly ...

AGoodMan

I'm so ready.

AGoodMan

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all remaining physical mirrors of the set have been cancelled. Instead, we are hosting a closed Discord mirror on May 23, the original planned date of HSNCT. Teams who were planning on playing the set are encouraged to register.

AGoodMan

I tried to look into this awhile back and talked with Jonah about it, but is it possible to add citation templates like in Wikipedia? By this I mean when you edit Wikipedia, you can add sources and format them in a specific manner, which will show up in a References or Citations section toward the ...

AGoodMan

I liked the Ideal Gas constant tossup in this set (can I see it?). More of the science in this set felt like you had to have experience in the field in order to get that question early in (à la the time question), which I really liked in comparison to previous sets I've played. 9. Before the 2019 ...

AGoodMan

Can I see the Michael I Romanov tossup?

AGoodMan

This tossup provides another piece of evidence why the 2-second rule really isn't compatible with the clues NAQT is often using: In one poem, a husband of Hrodr who is said to be this god's father catches two whales before cutting a fishing line baited with an ox's head. This clue was very hard to ...

AGoodMan

Relatively minor, but there was one round with three straight Russia-related tossups: Red Square, Sholokhov, and Michael I.

AGoodMan

Can I see the exact wording of the "wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia" bonus part? From what I heard, the question said something along the lines of " During this event, Caeneus died..." I answered with Centauromachy, which was neither accepted or prompted. If the question actually did say ...

AGoodMan

I was very sad to realize that I did not get to play the Joseon tossup. The leadin to the tossup says: 1. An admiral of this kingdom was said to have tightened iron ropes between enemy fleet groups during a battle that he had prepared his soldiers for by saying that “those who seek death shall live; ...

AGoodMan

Could you please post the question on "healing"? Aside from the eyeroll-y content, I wasn't able to deduce from the question until quite late that it didn't want some much more specific answer. I would very much like to second this request. I think one of the earlier clues mentioned 1 Corinthians ...

AGoodMan

ganman0305 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:55 pm and Sean Philips is editing Trash and Law. We still need editors for the following subjects:

Out of curiosity, what does this mean?

AGoodMan

Thank you to everyone who played HFT at MSU! We hope you enjoyed the set. A private discussion forum for the set has been created; please considering leaving feedback there, as it helps us improve the set. To join, please click on your Username -> User Control Panel -> Usergroups and then request to ...

AGoodMan

When I was moderating, I had to stare at this bonus part and figure out that you were saying Greece was fighting for its independence from this country. This is another reason why last minute should be avoided and playtesting is an unambiguous good! Asking moderators to figure out your grammar for ...

AGoodMan

This could just be me, but one of the moderators we brought agreed with me that bonus turnover seemed lower than at other tournaments we've played. Hopefully the bonus conversion was in-line with a regs+ difficulty set - the numbers we saw from Triton Fall were roughly what we were expecting from a ...

AGoodMan

Hello, this is my first time in a discussion group, so apologies if I'm not up-to-date on standard etiquette and procedure for these things. I'd like to preface my questions by simply saying that I had a great time on HFT this year and my teammates all thought it was pretty fun and mostly fair ...

AGoodMan

Thank you to everyone who played HFT at Triton Fall! We hope you had an enjoyable experience. A private discussion forum for the set has been created. To join, click on your Username (top-right hand corner of the page) -> User Control Panel -> Usergroups -> request to join 2019 HFT Discussion. We ...

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