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vcuEvan

I can't go, but I have some advice. I think the best thing the superteam can do to save this tournament and make it enjoyable for them is to split into two teams.

vcuEvan

Ras superfamily wrote:We are now at 19 to 22 teams. I encourage everyone who wants to register to do so before Sunday night, at which point we will evaluate possible formats and place a hard cap on the field.

Chicago, Yale, let's do this.

vcuEvan

This is the official global announcement for ACF Regionals 2014, which will take place on February 22, 2014. Editors : Head Editor: Evan Adams Co-Editors: Carsten Gehring, Matt Jackson, Ashvin Srivatsa, Adam Silverman, and Will Nediger Hosts : Note that we are now actively seeking hosts in most regi...

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marnold wrote:
Ukonvasara wrote:pictured: the VETO constitution

This is great work Marnold.

vcuEvan

Reading Harry Byrd, Jr's obituary reminded me that the tossup on Stonewall Jackson dropped the names of towns in the Shenandoah Valley too early. Thanks to the domination of a narrowly-defined set of Virginians, I think those are well known. Maybe, although even if you recognize the name of a town ...

vcuEvan

Since this tournament is happening across multiple sites, the bring-your-packet format doesn't make as much sense. Can someone who's not playing volunteer to compile all the packets and then send them out to the sites on Sunday? You wouldn't have to edit them or anything, just make sure they're name...

vcuEvan

This will be run Sunday at VCU Open. It will probably happen after Triacontakaipentagon. Here's a sign-up sheet: Sign-up sheet This is now happening from 10-12 AM in the James Branch Cabell Library, which is just across the street from Harris Hall. Hopefully this will both allow people with afterno...

vcuEvan

I'm looking for a teammate for this who can answer questions on things like non-western, renaissance, classical and medieval.

vcuEvan

This will be run Sunday at VCU Open. It will probably happen after Triacontakaipentagon. Here's a sign-up sheet:

Sign-up sheet

vcuEvan

Playtester here, I didn't notice anything too egregious in the set while playtesting it. I will say that there were a lot of bonus parts where the answer was something very easy, but the clues were very hard. I found this incredibly annoying, as I always found such bonuses annoying in my playing da...

vcuEvan

The field for this could certainly be improved. Maybe a public accounting of how many questions have been written and how many remain would reassure potential players who are worried about the set not being written on time.

vcuEvan

This is a great idea. I'll be writing a packet and playing for sure.

vcuEvan

I'll be there either way.

vcuEvan

This time switch would probably preclude me from playing the last few rounds. This tournament should be run in the morning.

vcuEvan

The teams, most of which have already made travel arrangements, had no reason to suspect the arrangement would be any different this year. Declaring by fiat that you're unilaterally postponing CO Trash is unfair to these teams. It's also against the spirit of CO Weekend as a community event. It's c...

vcuEvan

If the trash tournament cannot conform itself to a plan that gives it half the available time on Sunday, then there is simply no way the tournaments can be run consecutively. As I've said many times, I've designed this tournament to accommodate that schedule. I can investigate the availability of o...

vcuEvan

If the trash tournament cannot conform itself to a plan that gives it half the available time on Sunday, then there is simply no way the tournaments can be run consecutively. As I've said many times, I've designed this tournament to accommodate that schedule. I can investigate the availability of o...

vcuEvan

For what it's worth, I'm not inexplicably less concerned with those teams; I was relying on Matt's statement above that the problem was teams that "have continued to add themselves to the team spreadsheet since I closed the field." In case this wasn't clear, I think it's unfair to exclude...

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My second position is that "first packet in" is not actually a very good decider of who gets the spot because: (1) It doesn't really help the editor to get packets that little bit sooner, (2) It creates very suspicious incentives where teams are rushing to submit crap questions just so th...

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I think the best option generally in this situation is to raise the cap. However, assuming that this is not doable, Matt's current plan is the best option. John Lawrence laid out the many reasons why enforcing the spreadsheet(s) is a terrible idea. Every team relied on the lack of a cap in the origi...

vcuEvan

Someone should mirror this in the Philadelphia to New York area.

vcuEvan

Some of us may want to play this at NSC. Any chance someone who has this can email it to me?

vcuEvan

I've got a room I can staff out of for this if it runs at not the same time as Science EDIT: unless you didn't mean hotel rooms This tournament will almost certainly be run at the same time as science. I have four people listed as staffers [Matt Bollinger, Auroni Gupta, Nicholas Karas, and Dylan Mi...

vcuEvan

Are teams going to be formed on the spot or will there be some registration process? In any case, I'm interested in playing. Here's the link to the team signup for NSC. If I don't get much more interest over the next couple of days, this will just be played shootout style in the staff hotel. Google...

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With six and a half teams signed up including free agents, this tournament will happen as planned. The field is capped at 8. If we get eight teams it will be a full round robin. If we don't get eight teams we will collapse to six teams and do a full round robin, with finals and some sort of scrimmag...

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njsbling wrote:What day/time will this take place at PACE? I can staff if it doesn't conflict with the Science event.

Saturday night.

vcuEvan

Here's the link to the team signup for NSC. If I don't get much more interest over the next couple of days, this will just be played shootout style in the staff hotel.

Google doc for making teams

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njsbling wrote:If it does not conflict with the science side tournament I can help staff it at NSC. FYI, the google doc is listed as view only.

Fixed.

vcuEvan

Cody Voight and I will be running a mirror of this event at NSC. It will either happen in the UMD classrooms after the tournament on Saturday night, or in the main staff hotel also on Saturday night. (I'll try to get a definitive answer on this ASAP). It is doubles for now, but teams may be combined...

vcuEvan

Maybe the Ohio people defending Bossick know something the rest of us don't, but if anything Madden's actions seem pretty restrained. If someone I know takes thousands of dollars of my property and refuses all contact with me for weeks, I'm calling the cops.

vcuEvan

It's a good idea Matt, but too late. UVA has also made plans based on the announcement, and notice is way too short at this point.

vcuEvan

I really like the 6x6 into 3x12. The prospect of a full round robin between the top 12 teams in the country is really exciting.

vcuEvan

Is it possible to make a schedule with more than 10 games even without a 12th team? Rounds are capped at 20 minutes, and some teams are travelling from pretty far away to play just a little over three hours of quizbowl.

vcuEvan

So when I wrote BATE 2 (and maybe I did the same for the first BATE but I honestly don't remember) I made a template so that every five questions would have one question from each of the big 3. I made four such templates which I repeated three times over the 12 rounds of the tournament. No one seem...

vcuEvan

I'm not sure how far away you are from UVA Eric, but you and your teammates are welcome to UVA practices at any time. Let me or Matt Bollinger know if you want to be put on the mailing list.

vcuEvan

Will has written his questions. I'll do mine by tomorrow.

vcuEvan

Matt Weiner wrote:
vcuEvan wrote:I'm playing this with Chris Ray.
Does this mean all the questions will be parody tossups on "elephants in literature" written by Ted?

I legitimately hope so.

vcuEvan

I'm playing this with Chris Ray.

vcuEvan · Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012 Will Butler and I are playing this.

Will Butler and I are playing this.

vcuEvan

1. Will's lit tournament
2. Saajid's lit tournament
3. tournaments I wouldn't have to write questions for
4. other tournaments

vcuEvan

I agree with Andrew. This thread is complaining about a problem that doesn't even exist. Read more questions.

vcuEvan

I can see why Tommy's list of foreign directors might be giving people concerns about dead questions. I think the most important part of the post, and the one I hope people really take to heart, is the point that movies people actually watch can be in the arts distribution. Asking questions on films...

vcuEvan

Since this is such a small field how would people feel about running a brief tournament (like a single round robin) and then doing a draft or some other exciting reconfiguration of teams?

vcuEvan

This was a solid tournament, and there were some good things about it that haven't really been praised. Both the tossup line limits and the 1/1 trash per round are standards that I would like to see implemented by most, if not all, regular tournaments. Also, the tossup difficulty seemed about right....

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I think that a lot of this could be avoided by making sure to list alternate answers; if the clue refers to a scimitar and the answer is "sword," making sure to say "accept scimitar" on that clue is pretty important. I also agree with Chris that if a player gives an answer which...

vcuEvan

I think that a lot of this could be avoided by making sure to list alternate answers; if the clue refers to a scimitar and the answer is "sword," making sure to say "accept scimitar" on that clue is pretty important. I also agree with Chris that if a player gives an answer which...

vcuEvan

I think it'd be helpful and maybe increase usage if there was a link to the db along the top of the forum.

vcuEvan

Hilarius Bookbinder wrote:I would probably attend this were it not in the middle of finals.

Ditto.

vcuEvan

As I mentioned in some thread long ago, Kathy Acker hasn't ever come up that I've heard, nor does she appear as a hit in the databases. But her post-feminist, punk-influenced work was assigned in all kinds of literature classes in both undergrad and grad school in the late 80s and early 90s. Don't ...

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I'm guessing that the tossup on parrots, which strikes me as a bit below ideal (though by no means the worst question ever written, because it seems pyramidal and contains clues from works that people read), began from Flaubert's Parrot / Coeur Simple and led the writer (I'm assuming Evan) to think...

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