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I am in talks with HSAPQ to get their questions (perhaps edited down to 5-6 lines) for next regular season. As HSAPQ does not produce any tossups that are over six lines, we feel confident that no editing of our questions will be necessary. Further, we're very excited about the possibility of produ...

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Illinois still has good players, including that dude named Mike Sorice. Will Turner is back and hopefully will come to many tournaments. Jeff Crean is a very knowledgeable history player, if he decides to play events. Trygve Meade has been writing a ton of questions and is only adding to his alread...

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This is the official announcement for the Earlybird Tournament, which will be held at the University of Illinois on Saturday, October 25, 2008. This tournament will use house written questions produced collaboratively between the Minnesota, Brown, and Illinois college teams. To register or ask quest...

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We talked with our coach today about our schedule and he told us something about earlybird being moved to New Trier, anyone confirm this? Are you guys considering coming to Earlybird? If so, we'd be happy to answer any questions about it. You can e-mail me at trygvemeade@gmail.com if you'd like to ...

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theMoMA wrote:Would you like me to finish my impossible speedcheck set in time for this?

Yeah, if we get TRASH Regionals, we can run this on Sunday night, or if we don't, we can run this on Sunday morning. If you have time to finish this up by IO, we'll certainly run it.

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I added even more information, but the important thing to note is that there will be a mirror at the University of Maryland directed by Chris Ray.

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I guess I should come out and say that I've been in contact with Matt about moving TTGT11 to accomodate this new tourney, with Iowa then serving as the Midwest host for this new event. Alternative dates we're considering for TTGT11 are December 6th (last year's date) and October 25th (only conflict...

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That kind of brushes finals for us, but I think we'll probably find enough interest to get some people up there.

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Speaking as someone whose team would have to travel less than a combined 8 hours to go to both Nationals, having an ICT in or around Chicago at a hotel or otherwise is a tremendously appealing prospect.

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I stickied this because I think it's useful enough to stay right up near the top of the forum all the time.

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I added yet more information to the above. If you're in one of the regions that doesn't yet have an IO mirror, and you want some free money with no packet writing attached, e-mail me about hosting a mirror!

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In this thread, share your predictions for the 2008-2009 college quizbowl season. I'll start off with some: ACF Nationals 1. Brown With Eric Mukherjee continuing his meteoric rise to prominence and Jerry's ability to get many questions at high levels, I look for this team to win ACF Nationals this y...

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Bumping; I added a little information.

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I, and probably a team or two of other Illinois people, will almost certainly play this, unless travel plans render that impossible.

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Can the Social Sci/Philo tournament that was slated for CO happen at MO? No, I'm afraid that I won't have time to reconstruct the set before then. However, perhaps JECHT could happen on Friday night? That might make it easier for people who need to be at class on Monday morning to arrange travel pl...

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Deesy Does It wrote:Eric, you know you're my idol, but wouldn't UIUC make a lot more financial sense to go to?

Yes.

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High School Academic Pyramid Questions, a new company which is producing question sets for licensed use at independent high school quizbowl tournaments, is pleased to announce that its first sets will be made available during the Fall 2008 semester. The goal of HSAPQ is to provide questions of an ac...

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Ryan Westbrook wrote:Darn it, my post just missed Trygve's split-off. Can someone migrate my post over here, so we can pile on the official "Yankee Jingos piling on peaceful fun-loving Canadians" parade?

Sure.

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I'm producing a quizbowl tournament that we're planning to hold on November 15 as the Illinois Open. If a Canadian team wants to run a tournament on those questions, I'd be perfectly willing to slash my rates, even down to not charging for the questions. If you're a Canadian team and you want to spr...

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I have split discussion of Canadian quizbowl in general from this topic. You can discuss it over here.

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I think the plan is that Rob Carson and I are going to team up for this.

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dtaylor4 wrote: Ray Luo, who was also kind enough to compensate readers.

Bruce did this too. Thanks, Bruce!

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I really enjoyed this tournament, and thought that the academic clues were an interesting and amusing addition to the questions. Thanks to the writers for putting together a fine set.

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Hey, First, I'd like to apologize to everyone who was expecting us to put on a tournament Sunday night. I'm really sorry that that didn't happen. The circumstances that brought that about have been discussed already here, so I'll simply note that I'm sincerely sorry that I didn't do a better job of ...

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Hey, It's not that were expecting more teams to sign up anyway, but I'm disinclined to change my format now, so I don't think we'll be accepting any further teams into the field unless one drops out. The cost for this event will be $10/team. We'll be awarding prizes for the top two teams and also fo...

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stevengfeldman wrote:Hey, this sounds pretty cool. Are you guys planning on allowing a Northeast or New England Mirror?

You should host one at Brandeis, dude. E-mail me if you're interested or talk to me about it on IRC.

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Hey,

Is there any more information regarding this tournament? Do you want us to write packets, and is it required?

Thanks,

Trygve

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I hope this is a good place to post this, and I hope people from the 'ham frequent this board. I'm a Classics and Music major at Samford who did quiz bowl all through HS (and middle school) in Alabama (MS and Grissom, my freshman year) and North Carolina. Samford doesn't have a team, and I don't ha...

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Also, I went out of my way to go to a couple college tournaements relatively secretly, which is something I think a lot of Illinois players could really benefit from if they were to do. This seems a good time to note that UIUC is hosting a collegiate tournament, EFT, on October 4th. The questions a...

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I don't think that I would have a problem with putting the movies tournament in between the end of trash and the start of social science/philosophy. If anyone who is planning to play SS/Phil, but was planning to fly out Sunday night and would therefore be impacted by having SS/Phil end later, let me...

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As per an e-mail that I recently received from R. Hentzel, it is officially ok to discuss specific questions from all NAQT sets from this year. If you expect to attend a tournament using questions from this year's NAQT sets, or if you practice on them or whatever, you're on your honor not to cheat. ...

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Hey, all, Unless something changes, the format for this tournament is going to be a bracketed round robin among 2 brackets of 6, followed by a rebracketing and another round robin. The best record will win, and ties in record (including for first place) will be broken by points per game. As Andrew p...

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Shantanu dropped our team to go see a relative in India, so we will have our 4th player pending. Stay tuned. On that note, if you're interested, please e-mail me at trygvemeade@gmail.com. We have found a fourth. Our team will now consist of Charlie Dees, Trevor Davis, myself, and the inestimable Aa...

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This is its own thread, now, but this: PACE takes all criticism of NSC very seriously, and we are looking into the concerns raised by Shawn Weaver that are referred to in this thread. Others are certainly within their rights to post a differing opinion regarding NSC moderators, but please don't go a...

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I have moved the posts regarding discussion of NSC moderators to this thread.

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Deesy Does It wrote:Shantanu dropped our team to go see a relative in India, so we will have our 4th player pending. Stay tuned.

On that note, if you're interested, please e-mail me at [email protected].

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I'm just going to talk about each team individually: DCC: We are only losing one guy (Joe), so we should be pretty strong next year. If Brett can pick up the lit. that Joe knew and we get stronger on our weaker topics, we should do pretty well. EL: They will definately a lot weaker from the loss of...

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OP_Huskies wrote:I think it is the Downers North coach ... at least she did question/moderator control as of 2 or 3 years ago. However, her name escapes me now.

Please identify yourself in your signature with your name and school affiliation, as per the policy outlined here.

Thank you,

Trygve

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allythin wrote:Some of us are wondering what gave you the idea that GIT at WUSTL would be on November 1? We've not announced that nor was anyone intending to.

I told Andrew that. My apologies; conversations with people at WUSTL seemed to indicate that you guys were planning to host GIT that day.

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Eärendil wrote:2007 Illinois Open

Please go right ahead.

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Hey, all. This is the field right now for this tournament: Teams: Eric Mukherjee + Jonathan Magin Jeremy Eaton + Mike Bentley Matt Lafer + Chris Carter Gautam Kandlikar + Arnav Moudgil Guy Tabachnick + Matt Weiner Andrew Hart + Billy Beyer Ahmad Ragab + Chris Borglum Charlie Dees + Bruce Arthur Mike...

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This is an announcement for Illinois' traditional academic mACF tournament, Illinois Open 2008: Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Spite , which will be held at the University of Illinois on November 15, 2008. The Saturday events of this tournament will take place in Gregory Hall, while the Sunday event...

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I'm trying to organize a team for this.

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I'd like to play this tournament.

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Mine's probably not too different from how you'd think: "Trigg-vee".

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Saturday set (an m ACF novice tournament) had far more tossups go unanswered than the Sunday set (NAQT Sectionals DII). I fixed that quote for you. As others have pointed out, the questions used on Saturday were an independent circuit event edited by myself. I'm not affiliated with ACF, so you can'...

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Good riddance.

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He's not on the list up there, but I'm playing with Matt Weiner.

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Second, according to a guy that sits on the Minneapolis Fed and is the dad of one of the B players/one of the chaperones, biflation doesn't exist. Hey, Actually, I believe I've heard this come up in my classes as a problem specific to developing economies, especially China. It probably isn't someth...

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Inquiring minds want to know: what happened at this event?

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