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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. ...

This sounds like a TON of fun.

I've split these posts into their own thread so that people can comment on this issue if they'd like, or on the general discussion of the set if they'd like. Thanks, Andrew. Although I understand that moderators and players don't necessarily want to be ambushed by vulgar language, I side with Mike'...

Field
House (~2)

The University of Chicago will mirror the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament on Saturday, May 13th. I, Alex Damisch, am directing this tournament, in collaboration with the University of Chicago's quizbowl team. EMT is a regular-minus undergraduate question set; you can read more about the questions (in...

The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:Mike Sorice/Saul Hankin/Matt Lafer/Billy Busse/Me won this tournament, stats to follow I'm sure

I also would like to see stats for this.

For what it's worth I have changed the phrasing of the question to read "tight [redacted]." If I could, I would put in "tight lucky charms" but that would unfortunately be confusing. I guess I will add that I agree with Mike Cheyne -- I don't remember who Earl Butz served when I was playtesting thi...

I think the difference between the two examples here is that quizbowl isn't really in the habit of giving direct quotes from literature to describe entire scenes, and so it's the default to paraphrase (so paraphrasing in a less graphic manner is fine) Yeah, and you can see in my post that that wasn...

I sympathize with being uncomfortable saying words, and perhaps you're right that in this case it was gratuitous seeing as how the gist was that it was a Secretary of Agriculture making horribly offensive statements. On the other hand, I still find the specific quote helpful in remembering who said...

We don't need censorship. Moderators were given a choice about what to say, which is the standard gesture. I'll go a step further on the Earl Butz quote and say that the clue is interesting precisely because of the quote itself and the context in which it occurred - changing the quote or paraphrasi...

The Earl Butz quote was not gratuitous; it was a famous quote illustrating his idiocy and it was easier to just put the quote in rather than paraphrase in my opinion. It made me super uncomfortable to have to talk about "tight pussy" during a game, and I don't consider myself particularly sensitive...

Also, I've already told Ike Jose, I have a big beef with packet 7 bonus 13 [infinitely divisible/normal/Levy]. As a person who actually does stats at a graduate level (EDIT--and who has also taken probability at a high level), I'm pretty sure I've never heard the term "infinitely divisible." Also, p...

So, it looks like nobody has complained about this long-form in about a year and a half, and not in a way that is specific to college. When you are editing a tournament, for the love of God, please include pronunciation guides. I have noticed that their absence has been particularly egregious in hou...

The Music/Opera bonus part on Adams had an abnormally high get rate. Did many people know this or was it fraudable (e.g. "contemporary composer" + "shares his surname")? There really aren't that many truly contemporary composers that come up, and John Adams is obviously one of them. I think most pe...

Field (teams/buzzers/staff)
Gustavus (1/0/0)
Carleton (1/1/0)
Wayzata (1/0/0)
Lawrence (3/1/1 [counting myself])
Minnesota (1/3/alum staffers)

I am thrilled to announce the University of Minnesota mirror of the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament on Saturday, April 15th. I, Alex Damisch, am directing this tournament, in collaboration with and with the support of the University of Minnesota’s quizbowl team. EMT is a regular-minus undergraduate q...

tiwonge wrote:Skype mirror of Penn Bowl?

(Are there any other Skype tournaments?)

EMT! The writers are doing a Skype mirror a week before the other sites so we can get feedback.

I have a good friend at Notre Dame (oh no, quizbowl tourism!) and could staff. I'd prefer the 1st.

Charlie is correct though in the fundamental bloodbath of some sectionals over others. It is unfair that some sectionals have a much better field than others, denying very good teams a chance to go to ICT. I would suspect the reform is probably not in cumbersome rules about travel, but rather in th...

[...] There was only one round at SoCal that had twenty or more tossups converted (with exactly 20), and Amherst never broke 18 converted or 19 read (and I doubt anyone else in DI did either). Amherst had rounds where we heard 12 questions (12!!) out of literally twenty four tossups. We heard fewer...

The tossup on sausage, which I assume was Geography or Other, did not accept or prompt on "bologna" despite including a clue on Lebanon bologna. The answerline actually said to accept specific types of sausage, so that's down to moderator error. As a very enlightened vegetarian, I did not know unti...

This set was a lot of fun to read, thank you for all the editors and people who submitted. I may have more things to say later. It feels like I'm more or less going to go to the grave asking for more/better pronunciation guides, but not having them in place for words like "Pirahã," "HWÆT," and "bejt...

thesouthindian wrote:Seriously, can't ananyone make a better version of Protobowl? Anytime? I have a tournament coming up in a couple weeks and I can't even practice because of this.

In fact, they can, although few would say that it's the best use of your time with a tournament coming up in a couple of weeks.

There are also a lot of great writers out there who haven't been "discovered" yet so to speak. If you get a few experienced editors (I'd say one for each major category of Lit, Science, History, and Fine Arts) and a bunch of newish but motivated writers, I think you could produce some good content....

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