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I hear there will be live-ish stats, anybody got a link?

I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mashups packet that I'm pleased to say I have another ~20 answer lines for "Trashups Packet 2: Electric Switcheroo." The trash will be mostly music and TV, the academics will roughly follow a standard ACF-ish distro (except maybe 2/0 ma...

While I don't know why any teams actually want to do this, it only causes problems when rosters aren't used/carefully scrutinized or whatnot and it leads to improper seeding. The solution is to require rosters if you're going to be creating brackets. Not denying that rosters are a good thing to hav...

While I don't know why any teams actually want to do this, it only causes problems when rosters aren't used/carefully scrutinized or whatnot and it leads to improper seeding. The solution is to require rosters if you're going to be creating brackets. Not denying that rosters are a good thing to hav...

St. Olaf won this tournament 11-0. Staaaaaaaaaats were posted the very same day (I know, right?).

I really enjoyed playing this set; thank you, editors! For the "Eastern Orthodox" tossup, prompting on specific patriarchates doesn't seem like the right thing to do. If you're not going to accept one patriarchate outright, you should probably anti-prompt, as e.g. "Greek Orthodoxy&quo...

A third shout-out to Jason and Samir––this tournament went a bit long, and some of the seeding was a little unwise. However, when we had a "circle of death" situation in the B bracket, Jason took input from the teams involved without being a doormat, and he and Samir re-did the playoffs sc...

I2. In packet 8, bonus 4, part 2, the underlining should be " Weber 's law," not " Weber's law ," and going by Wikipedia, " Weber -Fechner law" should also be on the answerline. I know this is obvious to most experienced mods, but our reader was tripped up when I just ...

My only possible addendum worth discussing is to bring up the practice (which is infinitely more widespread through much of the high school circuit) of finding out that some team dropped an hour before the tournament and then making a call for extra players who are at the tournament to come togethe...

Hi Jeff, Last year about two weeks before ICT, you emailed my team asking if our D2 team could attend ICT. Due to the short notice, we declined the invitation, and also due to the short notice, we were informed that the players on the D2 SCT team would not have their D2 eligibility revoked had we p...

In recent months, there has been a bit of hand-wringing about the lack of spring open/non-nationals tournaments, and with that the lack of new collegiate writers. Will Alston has already said plenty of great things on that and other current issues facing the community. As a new collegiate writer mys...

Cheynem wrote:Where are zee super acronym playoff stats

Or Celebs, for that matter.

Personal apology to those of you negatively affected by the insanely delayed pizza order--Papa John's was a nightmare to work with, including calling a number different than the one I asked specified, claiming they made calls to the correct number that I mysteriously never received, and at one point...

Consider me for your Celebs team! Résumé includes--7 years of experience as an actual teenage girl, and 22 years as a piece of trash.

Unfortunately, I don't believe I will be able to host tonight. If possible, I'd like to reschedule for next weekend. Let me know if this is an issue Uh...Chicago Open? EDIT: I would much prefer to postpone for an hour or something until you're available and just do it tonight, because it's harder t...

How different was the Peron question from this year compared to last year (when it was in Round 17)? The answer line could easily be Argentina with Peron being an acceptable answer line early in the question. I don't really see that this would have helped much That was my bad. I was adding up the s...

The other thing I might suggest is for more experienced writers to post "guides" on general principles of question-writing/potential pitfalls/useful sources. Every tournament I work on I go back to the notes on question-writing that Seth and Auroni sent out to PADAWAN writers. Similarly, ...

The Google doc says you need to be given access.

By ACRONYM, do we mean ACRONYM or Super ACRONYM? I feel like a lot of people will have already played ACRONYM, right? CCCT, Crime, UConn, and HSNCT especially.

Edit: I see that the link goes to Super ACRONYM, it just says "ACRONYM," my bad.

We laughed, we cried, we buzzed late on opera, and the Lawrence alumni came out swinging from the woodwork. Thanks so much to Ophir and the writers! It was a lot of fun!

2. Better mentoring. This is hard, especially when time is of a premium, but experienced editors working with quasi-experienced writers or editors I think can produce good results. I learned so much as a writer from the folks at Minnesota and even from last year's CO, working with Matt Jackson. One...

So, some specific details about the MSNCT edition of this: We will meet between 6:30 and 6:45, finalize team formation and scheduling, and then play the tournament. We'll use the Dennard, Matthews, and Wentzel rooms, which are apparently on the upper level. After the tournament has finished, I will...

I will be transferring within the University of Tennessee system, but from the Knoxville campus to the Health Science Center (in Memphis) and continue grad school there. Am very curious about my eligibility to play under "Tennessee" or not (if not, it would highly limit my chances of cont...

Not entirely sure if I'd staff or play, but I'd do at least one of those things for at least one day. If I staff there's a possibility I could bring someone to scorekeep for me.

No, the SCT and ICT sets get used for different things at later dates. EDIT: Jeff beat me. The problem right now, illustrated by packet-trading that resulted in cheating scandals in the not-so-distant past, is that there are more and more uses of the same questions around the country resulting in g...

Tornrak wrote:
Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm writing an extremely hard packet about early church history, available from Sunday.

Me, in the announcement thread for OCTAVIAN wrote:I'd be really interested in getting no questions correct on this

Will Nediger is Canadian.

Because of the late date of the tournament, the number of area teams (including UChicago) that have attended other EMT mirrors, and UChicago's desire to field house teams conflicting with potential IL high school teams, this mirror can't run as-is. I've sent out emails to >100 different contacts, bo...

grapesmoker wrote:
Aaron's Rod wrote:what does the cracker barrel have to say about the buzzer situation at nats
it's bad

I was hoping to get something stupid out of IKD, but this works too.

what does the cracker barrel have to say about the buzzer situation at nats

heterodyne wrote:
15.366 wrote:
Aaron's Rod wrote:Since [email protected] has infinity dollars, how much of the decision to drive one way was "for the liveblog"?
I hassled them for the liveblog, Alex. Until this started happening, I didn't believe they would actually do it.
This is... not true.

But it feels true.

Since [email protected] has infinity dollars, how much of the decision to drive one way was "for the liveblog"?

Oo-kamakiri wrote:Not pictured: Alston's Giant Slim Jim™

Really did not need that much information, Kai.

The problem right now, illustrated by packet-trading that resulted in cheating scandals in the not-so-distant past, is that there are more and more uses of the same questions around the country resulting in greater challenges for question security. The fewer packets floating around out there electr...

The problem right now, illustrated by packet-trading that resulted in cheating scandals in the not-so-distant past, is that there are more and more uses of the same questions around the country resulting in greater challenges for question security. The fewer packets floating around out there electr...

gettysburg11 wrote:High Tech A and B and Ithaca played EMT at Princeton yesterday. Stats here. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

High schools also played EMT at UMN (Wayzata) and the University of Washington (Westview, OR?).

Chris makes a ton of great points. First and foremost, this impact is that the teams who get the packets are the teams who can afford to pay for them. Now, they're relatively cheap (more on that in a minute), but still, college teams run on thin margins; the poorer teams are the ones who don't go an...

Minnesota took first place in this tournament, going 10-0. Wayzata took second, and Lawrence A and B tied in third place. Thanks so much to Sam Bailey, Carsten Gehring, Bernadette Spencer, and Rob Carson for staffing and for good advice in making everything run smoothly. Staaaaaaaaats are forthcomin...

Also: I felt there was a ton of sculpture in the visual fine arts for this set and there were some pretty hard answerlines. I knew Canova but I think he is not a gimme answerline for this difficulty level (I may be wrong though). There was someone else who was pretty hard as well in this set. Was i...

Following one of these events on an episode of Frasier , the title character found himself babysitting the daughter of a model named Kristina. On another sitcom, one of these events led to Buster's relationship with Lucille Austero. Andy interrupts a state senator and offers to adopt twelve dogs du...

I don't think the Revolutionary War question should've dropped that Boston Massacre woodcut clue so early. Same with search algorithms and breadth-first. The chiaroscuro bonus seems pretty easily 30'd for anyone who's taken a high school art course. I agree that Law of Large Numbers was a good idea...

Father Comstock wrote:There are definitely more mirrors. I know at least that Northmont, OH is mirroring it on May 20.

There's also a DII mirror at Mizzou.

In case someone hasn't seen the Amherst video, it's here (now with subtitles, thankfully). I loved it and am really looking forward to the Chicago drop in a short hour!

I probably only can comment on the music, but I found that most of the tossups I heard were definitely appropriate difficulty. Some clues were dropped fairly early in the question (e.g. Verdi for requiem) but otherwise the tossups seemed to contain good and rewarding clues. The bonuses were also fa...

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I would be all for another all-side-event monstrosity, though I also wouldn't mind an Americanized Cambridge Open. Count me in as another vote for Side Event-Palooza: I had a lot more fun getting a taste of a bunch of different sets than having to sit through another regular old academic tournament...

David This question is also in need of some more early and middle clues - the words carved into the rocks in Napoleon Crossing the Alps is extremely well known, especially in quiz bowl, so it probably shouldn't be as early as it ended up being. So funny--someone else also mentioned this to me priva...

EDITED 4/5/17: All of the questions mentioned in this post were edited quite a bit before the 3/25 or 4/1 mirrors. The arts, or at least the ones I know some things about, seemed to be a bit scattered in difficulty, though it trended towards being quite hard. The painting questions generally used go...

Hey all, here's my stuff. I did: - Math: All - Computer Science: search algorithms, Turing/P=NP/Fortran, string/concatenation/dictionaries, classification/trees/KNN - Painting: David, Raphael, allegory, Watteau, Velasquez, Revolutionary War, Garden of Earthly Delights, PRB, Magritte, Jesus/Van Eyck/...

The religion also seemed fairly solid as well - the latter seemed biased towards the Bible and Christian practice, but I think that's better than having too many minor religions or something like that at a tournament of this level. The mythology seemed a bit hard and top-heavy on clues in general. ...

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