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I found the Pointillism tossup super confusing given the pronoun "this style." I buzzed on the description of the Portrait of Felix Feneon with the answer portrait, because when I hear the phrase "this style" I think of traditional forms like portraiture, abstraction, history paintings, or nudes ra...

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the bonuses themed around rap music in literature (rap/The Hate U Give/Citizen) This was my favorite question in the set by a mile (made me glad I agreed to playing the packet even after 9 very long and tiring games, tbh) and I really like how it asked about YA novel The Hate U Give in a way that e...

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I greatly enjoyed editing the American Lit and Painting/Sculpture for this set. I plan on making a post about some of the differences between editing for a housewrite/set that doesn't utilize packet sub vs. one that does (so potential editors can evaluate which might be a better fit for them), but t...

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Here are two questions that I wrote down for negative reasons while playing the set. There are a much larger number of questions that I enjoyed, which I might comment on once I see the packets. There was a bonus about Massachusetts in literature that seemed to refer to The Crucible as being set in ...

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Having two easy parts on Canada in the same packet (C) seems less than ideal

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I too can only play this on Sunday

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ramblinwreck wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:37 am In addition, bouncebacks will not be used at this mirror.

<3

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As a vocal bounceback hater, I would also prefer this tournament didn't use them.

Also, I am searching teammates (that don't have aspirations to win the tournament) for this! I know some amount of lit and vfa.

edit: team found

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Update: Registration is now closed Final Field: Case Western Reserve University (2) Alabama University (1) Amherst College/Area (2) Stony Brook (2) Grinnell College (2) University of Iowa (3) Auburn University (1) Iowa State University (2) Carleton College (2) University of Minnesota (1) FWIW, the ...

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I'm becoming more convinced that Zoom tournaments need something other than the Zoom chat to handle buzzes. I was trying my hardest to notice buzzes but Zoom's minimalist chat interface makes it really hard to see them without just taking your eye from the packet every few seconds. Yeah, from readi...

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I'm sure the rest of Ethan's post is good, but Malcolm Gladwell is not an academic sociologist and I'm sure anyone who included him in a sociology question would be (rightly) ridiculed.

[he is a compelling speaker though]

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I'm not the most qualified to talk about studying for nats, so I'll just assume the advice given by the other very talented players in this thread is good. I did want to address a similar topic regarding transitioning from high school to college quizbowl (and nationals): mindset/expectations. A comm...

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I'm happy to see this tournament shifted to the fall and look forward to playing it! Given the concerns of the speed of online tournaments, we do not currently plan to use bouncebacks for these events, but we will allow tournament coordinators to make this decision for their own sites. you absolutel...

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Could teams that played SCT last year be surveyed relatively easily? Or this year as part of the registration process (if sct is able to occur), or ask hosts to distribute and scan in surveys along with scoresheets? That seems like a way to sample a larger portion of NAQT’s collegiate customer base.

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Does this mean that all of the mirrors are delayed as well, or just the main site?

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If this is going to be written at PACE difficulty it's probably a good idea to seek collegiate mirrors of the set.

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In light of recent discussion, we are strongly encouraging hosts - especially more experienced ones - to run this event with steals ("bouncebacks"). The flagship sites at Columbia and GA Tech will be using them. We have adhered strictly to an 800 character limit to tossups and 650 character limit t...

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I think you need very strict length control and bonus timing So the latter point is going to be extremely difficult to uniformly enforce across an entire tournament unless every room has a nats caliber reader in it (which most local tournaments definitely do not have!). Bounceback timing is arguabl...

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Someone who doesn't get nearly enough attention (overlooked region, not online, etc) is Sanjeev Uppaluri from Cambridge. He's basically solo in all the tournaments he plays, and he's definitely t4 in Georgia (worse than us, Hooch, Eastside). Notably, while playing six of the eight best teams in Geo...

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It might be best to name this something other than Neg 5, since there is already a quizbowl scorekeeping app with that name (viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220).

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I'd like to play this, but acronym league is tomorrow night, starting at 7 central. I can't remember how long it took last time, but I think I would miss out if so. If I'm the only one with this overlap I'll just read it later, so no worries :)

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I agree with most of what Mike said about the advantages and disadvantages of Zoom. I would like to note that for our team, there were multiple 5-10+ minute waits between rounds, so I think a lot more than 30 minutes was wasted on this throughout the day. I did like being able to see everyone during...

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This is a good topic to start a conversation about. I've always been of the opinion that due to the persistence of technical issues in discord tournaments, typing being slower than speaking, etc., something more along the lines of 7 seconds per part should be given to players. While this may slow a ...

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I'd like to hear the bonuses at this tournament, especially if the intention is to have as many school teams as possible play. I'm personally not much of a fan of bouncebacks.

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This was really interesting to listen to, thanks for taking the time to record it, Will. The only part of the analysis I can really comment on is about Florida. They definitely don't exclusively rely on Taylor to answer lit questions, as Tracy and Alex are quite capable at getting buzzes on that cat...

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I'll be starting a 2-year masters in higher ed admin at Vanderbilt, and plan to continue playing. Looking forward to joining a talented young team!

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Seems worth noting that Will has demonstrably improved a lot over the time span that the data set ranges, whereas other players have had more constant performances.

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ryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:23 pm I would strongly prefer a one-day tournament; I think tossups-only will be better for that, but wouldn't particularly mind if we included bonuses.

Selfishly, I would also like for this to be one day only, mostly so I don't have to get up early on back-to-back days.

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Some of greatest players of our age got to where they are within the four-year span of an undergraduate degree. I counted the number of players marked UG, DII, or equivalent in the top 10 prelim scorers of several ACF Nationals. Ah yes, the best method for determining who the best players are: PPG.

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Many of the best players in the middle of my career (besides me, obviously), were late UGs and early grad students (Matt Jackson, Matt Bollinger, Jordan Brownstein, Jacob Reed, Will Alston, Auroni Gupta at the time). Your proposed UG championship would also be dominated by a few of these figures, a...

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Are there any updates on this?

Specifically, my teammates and I are hoping to play this at HSNCT!

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The tournament will follow a round-robin style preliminaries and a consolation-style playoffs bracket. Any updates will be posted to this forum. Not to be rude, but what exactly does this mean? Also, I know it has been a few years since UGA hosted something, so feel free to reach out to me (westcha...

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1.5 Other Arts (Film, Jazz, Opera, Design, Architecture, Photography, World Music, etc) :party: :party: :party: Super cool that y'all are writing this, though I do have some concerns about 22/22 at open difficulty resulting in a super long day (though hopefully this will just be communicated well t...

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Sima Guang Hater wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:08 pm I enjoy writing Schrodinger bonuses where the e/m/h change based on whether you're coming at it from having studied old packets vs real knowledge of the subject. Other than the difficulty of marking that I support this idea.

could you give an example of this?

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First, I would like to say that these changes are excellent and ACF should be commended. Also, I wondered if there was a timeline for when editor applications would be released? I mentioned this in the discord, but I figured it was worth posting here as well. Does the community at large think the sc...

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ValenciaQBowl wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:22 pm Aaargh, bring them kids for a third team! Byes, sigh.

Last I heard (literally yesterday), the field was at six with 2 teams from UF.

Also, Bhanodai and I are looking for teammates if anyone is bringing a team of 5 or anything.

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For SCT, the staffer discount at $40 per school-provided staffer is also substantially larger than what I would otherwise provide (and what I can get local staff for providing). Of course, there's a broader question about compensation in QB that I don't want to wade into, but at least at U of T we ...

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Personally I would love this change. I don't buzz on more "technical" subjects (music/science), but in literature I would find this helpful, especially when trying to answer questions clueing specific quotations (lots of poetry questions, sometimes other forms of lit). I think I also generally just ...

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This happened, with Georgia Tech A winning DI, followed by Georgia Tech B. Vanderbilt A won DII, followed by Georgia B.

Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6362/. Thanks to all the teams for coming out today and I hope everyone had a good time!

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Barring any drops, the field for this tournament has been closed, with 4 teams in DI and 8 teams in DII. I look forward to seeing everyone Saturday!

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Another thing I noticed was that in the first three or four rounds we played, there was a very high amount of poetry, certainly more than 1/1, and a lack of long fiction. I'm not sure if it balanced out over the course of the tournament. I distinctly remember one round's tossups being 1 short fic, 1...

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I'll probably have more to say later, but a lot of the hard parts in this set felt incredibly hard, and there were a few outlier answerlines that felt way too hard, such as a tu on authors with the surname Tate. I did want to single out the Grapes of Wrath bonus, which would not have been out of pla...

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[*] I'm really not sure why the tossup on nuns couldn't have outright taken saint s, especially because a bunch of the people being clued were, in fact, saints (with the caveat that some of these Things Have Names i.e. "crowned nuns"). The directed prompt on "earthly vocation" was very welcome here...

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Count me in for Thursday

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Logistics email for this event that I just sent out, in case anyone did not get it: Hello all, If you're receiving this email, you are registered for MWT @ Auburn this Saturday, 1/18. If this is no longer the case, please let me know ASAP. This includes if the number of teams, staffers, etc. that yo...

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For field updates, use the following link on NAQT's website!
https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=11237

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Do you need mods for this

(specifically are you paying mods for this)

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Hello! I am happy to announce that Auburn University (Auburn, AL) will be hosting the Southeast site of NAQT's Sectional Championship Tournament (SCT) on February 8, 2020. Location: The tournament will take place at the Haley Center. The address for the building is 351 W Thach Ave Auburn, AL 36830. ...

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Field update:
Alabama (2/1/0)
Auburn (1/1/many)
Bevill State (1/2/1)
Clemson (2/2/2)
Florida (4/2/0 [nice])
Georgia Tech (1/1/0)

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I am pleased to announce that Auburn University will be hosting the Southeast mirror of the Michigan Winter Tournament on Saturday, January 18, 2020. The tournament will be hosted on the Auburn University campus in the Haley Center (351 W Thach Concourse, Auburn, AL 36849). This is a closed tourname...

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