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We will be holding one further online mirror of Terrapin Open for the United Kingdom this weekend, after which the set will be cleared for public discussion and uploaded to the database.

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Due to new information that has come to light, team 8 "In Place of a Hermeneutics of Art, We Need a Joe Exotic" have retroactively forfeited their games, meaning that Team 9 "Bay Area Scholars" (Natan Holtzman, Bryce Hwang, Stephen Liu, and Aseem Keyal) are now the winner of the Terrapin Open discor...

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I don't want to move the topic away from the topic of how to prevent cheating, but just want to mention that if we are considering whether or not Eric acted on pure motives or not, we should consider that Eric also payed the full amount of all teams' mirror fees, allowing me to reimburse the people ...

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While the Zoom idea is cool and interesting, almost certainly the biggest problem with it is that unless someone was paying for Zoom (which is relatively cheap, but still requires a fee, unlike discord) then you would have serious limits on what you are able to do on the platform. You could maybe do...

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Please note the following post speaks only for myself, and is not the official point of view of the Terrapin Open team or anyone else involved in running/writing/editing TO. So, when we had the opening meeting of TO Online, I posted this message, and pinned it: This is important, so I'll be pinning ...

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After finishing the full round robin, team 8, In Place of a Hermeneutics of Art, We Need a Joe Exotic (Chris Ray, Eric Mukherjee, Clark Smith, and Andrew Lim) cleared the field. Edit: Full stats can now be found here . If you notice any mistakes, please email me at [email protected].com Thanks everyo...

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Stats for all the rounds played today (rounds 1-9) can be found here.

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We're expanding the field cap to 14 teams, and making Thursday the last day you can register a team.

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Thus is the announcement for the Discord mirror of Terrapin Open which will take place over Saturday, March 28th and Sunday March 29th, 2020 Logistics : We will be reading both tossups and bonuses - as such, we'll be splitting the tournament over two days.We will play between 7 and 10 rounds on Satu...

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Progcon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:56 pm
Also, can we have a team-sign up sheet? I might have missed it if it's already been posted somewhere.

Edit: The announcement for the discord mirror is now up and can be found here.

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So it looks like the 28th was the winning date. The TO team have been discussing how best to run the mirror. Given the length entailed by a Nats- set, plus a discord mirror, would people still be interested in playing and staffing if we had to split the mirror over multiple days? (i.e. the first 7-9...

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To the teams and players who would still like to play Terrapin Open, I've set up a date poll to hold an online mirror that you can vote on here.

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To the teams and players who would still like to play Terrapin Open, I've set up a date poll to hold an online mirror that you can vote on here.

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So is there going to be an online mirror of this or no, because I'd like to play this set live but no weekend is particularly good. In light of the two physical mirrors of this set that have been cancelled, I hope that this set's editors organize or allow others to organize an online mirror. We wil...

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Due to the cancellations of on-site mirrors, we will be hosting an online mirror of Terrapin Open. Set details can be found here . I've set up a poll to determine the best day to hold the mirror - please select all days that you would be available to play or staff the online mirror. The poll ends ne...

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I had a wonderful time scorekeeping and seeing everyone at the event! ^_^ By the way, Alex, my name is Miranda. Like the character in The Tempest, after whom I am named. Oof. Sorry for that - there's no excuse. On a slightly happier note, I re-uploaded stats after fixing a whole bunch of minor erro...

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Thank you to all teams that came out and played TO today! Sheep Go to Heaven, GOATs Go to College Park (Jordan Brownstein, Matt Bollinger, Weijia Cheng, Chris Manners) cleared the field to claim victory. Full stats have been posted and can be found here . If you notice any mistakes, please don't hes...

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Do you anticipate running any side events on Sunday? As of now I'm still trying to figure out the room situation for Sunday, but a few people have expressed interest in running ACRONYM, so if we can get rooms, that would probably happen. If we can get rooms I'd be happy to run additional side event...

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We have added mirrors at Brown, Purdue, and Toronto. The announcement has been updated to reflect this, and links have been provided to all announcements that are currently up.

I apologize for the delay on the announcement of the midwestern site - it's entirely my fault.

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As of now I'm still trying to figure out the room situation for Sunday, but a few people have expressed interest in running ACRONYM, so if we can get rooms, that would probably happen. If we can get rooms I'd be happy to run additional side events if there is interest.

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I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland will be hosting 2020 Terrapin Open on Saturday, February 22nd, 2019. Question Set: Terrapin Open is a Nats-minus level tournament being written by members of the Maryland Academic Quiz Team, as well as several outside writers and editors. More...

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Edit: We have added a mirror at Stanford, and confirmed that the UMD site will host on February 22nd. An announcement for the latter will be up shortly.

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I’m posting an apology and explanation, prepared with other Terrapin Open contributors. We apologize for changing plans after we initially approved the mirror. We promise that in the future we will go through our internal process before making communications to prevent this problem from happening ag...

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Thank you to all teams that came out and played ACF Fall today! After a close finals game, Penn State A beat Virginia A to claim the overall and undergraduate titles, while Virginia A claimed second in both categories. Johns Hopkins A was the DII champion, with Penn State C claiming the DII runner-u...

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Due to restrictions on staffing, we have decided to close registration.

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Thank you to all teams that came out and played! Maryland B claimed victory, beating Delaware in a disadvantaged final after having beaten Johns Hopkins in a tiebreaker to advance to the finals. We apologize to all teams involved in the slightly hectic end of the day, but full stats have been posted...

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Due to reaching our team cap, registration for this mirror has been closed and we can no longer accept any more teams

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Please note the original post has had the field and that the registration deadline has changed to end of day Monday, September 30th.

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Taper or die. Can you do any less? wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:49 pm
Noble Rot wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:29 pm I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland will mirror the 2019 iteration of Early Fall Tournament (EFT) on Saturday, November 2, 2019
That doesn't seem right...

Sorry, that has been fixed.

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I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland will mirror the 2019 iteration of Early Fall Tournament (EFT) on Saturday, October 5th, 2019. Question Set: EFT is a medium-difficulty tournament - more information can be found in the global announcement here. Registration: To register for UM...

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I am pleased to announce that the Upper Mid-Atlantic site of 2019 ACF Fall will be held at the University of Maryland on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The tournament will take place in Jimenez Hall, with team check-in beginning at 8:30 and gameplay beginning at 9:00. I will serving as the tournament d...

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Sorry for the delay, full stats have been uploaded and can be found here.

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Field as of 4/2/2019

Teams/Buzzers/Staffers
Penn Manor: 1/4/0

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UMD's announcement for our high school mirror of Terrapin 30 can be found here.

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EDIT: Unfortunately we have decided to cancel the mirror because of a lack of interest. I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland will hold a high school mirror of Terrapin 30 on Saturday, April 20th, 2019 Question Set: Terrapin 30 is a medium-difficulty college tournament written by ...

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Whoops, sorry about that. Combined stats should be fixed now and no longer double counting games. Apologies for the delay.

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Thanks to all teams that came out and played! UVA defeated Johns Hopkins A in a one-game final, while Delaware defeated Rutgers A to claim third place. Playoff and prelim states can be found here . Edit: Combined stats are now uploaded. If you notice any mistakes, please pm me or email [email protected]...

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Edit: Registration has now closed and the field is finalized.

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The University of Maryland would like to confirm April 20th as the day for our high school mirror of Terrapin.

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Can someone from Hopkins confirm their mirror of ILLIAC on March 30th? UMD is planning on hosting our high school mirror of Terrapin on April 20th, but if March 30th isn't going to be used we would consider that as well.

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Field Update as 2/24/19

Teams/Buzzers/Staffers
Arizona: 1/0/0
Carnegie Mellon: 3/3/0
Columbia: 1/0/0
Delaware 1/2/0
Gettysburg: 1/1/0
Johns Hopkins: 2/3/0
NYU: 3/1/0
Princeton: 1/1/0
Rutgers: 3/0/0
Virginia: 1/0/0

Total: 17/11/0

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I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland will hold a mirror of Terrapin 30 on Saturday, March 3rd. Question Set: Terrapin 30 is a medium-difficulty tournament written by members of the University of Maryland Academic Quiz Team. More information about the set can be found in the globa...

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Thank you to all the teams that came out to ACF Fall this year - we hope you had a great time. Congratulations to Maryland A, who cleared the field to win the Maryland site of ACF Fall this year. Full stats can be found here: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5396/ If there are any mistakes with ...

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I totally agree. Firstly, Blair is planning on hosting a tournament next year and my current plan is to abandon the idea of doing another housewrite and maybe even make it a totally novice tournament, however that would obviously depend on whether we could get sufficient interest. I am certainly pl...

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Can the tossups on "Senegal" and "Nyerere" be posted please? The paramilitary group FLAM is headquartered in this country and represents the halpulaar population in this country’s northern neighbor. This country dissolved a short-lived federation with its eastern neighbor amidst tensions between it...

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Can the tossups on "Senegal" and "Nyerere" be posted please?

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12. The third movement rondo of a trio sonata for this instrument, oboe, and piano was modeled after Saint-Saens's second piano concerto; that work was composed by Francis Poulenc. John Williams wrote a concerto called The Five Sacred Trees for Judith LeClair, who is currently the New York Phil’s p...

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Moving on the topic at hand, I'd like to point out that this is remarkably similar to the situation that occurred last year at UCSD's mirror of Terrapin, and the community decided that a tournament can have adjustable eligibility rules, but they need to be clearly stated, so as to be fair to all. W...

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Okay, so allowing open high school teams to play at easy college tournaments is certainly a bad idea; but Penn Bowl is surely not the best example of this behavior as it usually only attracts experienced college teams and some really motivated high schoolers. Your argument that high schoolers shoul...

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I just want to say that for the most part, I enjoyed the history in this set, especially the tossups on "Mehmet Ali" and "Schools" in France (I'm pretty sure this one was a replacement tossup that got used in my room, but I'm not certain.) Could someone please post the tossups on "bassoons" and "Mas...

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