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If it is ever proven to my satisfaction that you somehow used this forum to cheat, I will non-negotiably ban you permanently.

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Cross-posted: I've just set up a hidden forum for the discussion of T-Party. TO ENTER: From your user control panel, select usergroups. Find T-Party at the bottom of the list, then click the radio button and submit as "join selected." Andy, Rob, and Bernadette will be in charge of approvin...

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I've just set up a hidden forum for the discussion of T-Party. TO ENTER: From your user control panel, select usergroups. Find T-Party at the bottom of the list, then click the radio button and submit as "join selected." Andy, Rob, and Bernadette will be in charge of approving people to jo...

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I'm pleased to announce that we're welcoming Jeff Hoppes to our forum staff as a moderator!

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Total props to Charter for using Age of Empires cheats nicknames. Thank you. There were actually five of us, but we just rotated the names. Is this set posted and/or being discussed somewhere? I sent a note to the admin with Penn Bowl in the title but nothing happened. Hey, sorry, you should be abl...

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I prefer Saturday only, then Saturday-Sunday. I would be very disappointed if ICT were to have rounds on Friday.

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The rules have been updated above! For your convenience, here are the new rules: This is the most important new rule: You cannot do anything to try to stifle discussion on this board. You cannot hold your tournament up as exempt from criticism (though you may post about extenuating circumstances, I ...

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As I noted in the rules forum, the board staff has set up a hidden discussion forum to facilitate discussion of Penn Bowl. If you'd like to access said forum, send me an e-mail with your username and tell me where you played. It would be cool if you could add the phrase "Penn Bowl" to your...

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There are two things that I should clarify from the first post. First, if you don't need to be blind to a set because you're not planning on playing it anyway, you are eligible to access the forum for that set. Second, if it's ever proven that you use these forums to cheat in any capacity, you will ...

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Hello, everyone, Beginning with Penn Bowl this weekend, the hsquizbowl.org forums will be introducing new, tournament specific discussion forums in the collegiate section. These forums will be visible only to those who have already played the set, and will be invisible to everyone who must not read ...

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Ukonvasara wrote:I will kill for this

Hey, I promise I won't leave halfway through if we play this together again.

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Hey, I resurrected it from its untimely demise, and then I merged your new thread into this one. Sorry about that!

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I've never heard of this happening, but I'll speak to someone right away. It would really help me if you could e-mail me the text of the error message you receive - my e-mail address is [email protected].

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a full-strength Illinois and a full-strength Chicago A playing each other at the Illinois-Chicago site Is Illinois planning on playing at the Chicago site? Seems like Bloomington is approximately the same distance for them and is actually, you know, in their ACUI region. I don't mean to diminish yo...

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Cheynem wrote:I'm not actually sure who gets the credit, but every tournament I've been to at the University of Illinois has been well run.

We tend to rotate directors, but Sorice has taught all of us everything any of us ever knew about this.

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Everyone who is not a board staffer: stop meta-criticizing people's posts right now. Thank you. :w-hat: We're not allowed to criticize other posts for being meaningless? What is this meaning of this statement. It's gentle enough: This thread is for discussing Delta Burke 2009; it's not for discussi...

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Everyone who is not a board staffer: stop meta-criticizing people's posts right now. Thank you.

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What is the ideal calendar that you think a system like this would produce?

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Nah, it'll just have to come back when they actually announce them. Might as well leave it up for now!

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As we all know, making the stats from your tournament public in a timely manner after your tournament concludes is one of the best ways to make everyone on hsquizbowl think you're a really responsible TD. But we've seen a recent trend of people uploading them as attachments to their posts, and that'...

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Hey,

The staff of hsquizbowl prefers that you use this excellent service:

http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx

to host stats, rather than uploading them as an attachment to your posts.

Thank you!

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myamphigory wrote: I mean, if we're going to be sticklers for accuracy here, I should point out that Richard Reid, the president of CBI, and Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, are TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT GUYS!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... HUNDER.zip

This should be the version of the packets that was played at the the first round of sites. I'll be sending George another version of the packets when I can get at my laptop.

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dtaylor4 wrote:Two teams from the U of I, maybe a staffer.

Actually, there's a solid chance we might get three, but we'll definitely have two at the least.

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cdcarter wrote: I figured AHAN was the best place to put this.

I didn't!

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Please resolve your intra-team dispute on your mailing list, not on the message boards.

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My account just got activated, I'll send out invites to the first n people who posted when I'm able.

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For writers: attempt to understand every clue you use in a question and attempt to write questions that reflect this understanding. I think this is the most important part of what Jonathan wrote above, putting to the side his extremely important point about the packet archives. This game isn't abou...

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Admins: Is there any chance we could get a separate subforum, much like the Fall Novice? Hey, yeah, this can happen. I'll set this up later today. For maximum efficiency, please e-mail me a list of the usernames (not people!) that you want added to the subforum, and we can have it operational tonig...

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Esteemed posters:

I've split the discussion of the tournament format over to here.

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Hey, everyone, I'm following this thread with great interest, but I just wanted to clarify something: I forgot to designate the questions that I wrote for the finals as such. So sometimes, things that were purposefully a little harder than the other questions, rather than being concentrated into a m...

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Ladies and gentlmen, I'm at a computer again, so I can post this: First off, sorry that the questions went out so late! We're extremely interested in your feedback, but for now, there are two delayed mirrors of this tournament, so we can't start a discussion thread yet. We're interested in solving a...

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THUNDER is being constructed as I post this (with a few placeholders.)

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I'm the tardy one on Illinois, I'm afraid, but I'll get my questions written absolutely as soon as THUNDER's finished.

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To be clear, I submitted the Stephen Pinker question as a social science question.

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Hey, everyone: It's going to happen at last if it kills me. Walden III will be played at Illinois Open, TIT, and their assorted mirrors this year. Walden III is a tossup only subject-specific tournament comprised of questions on social science, philosophy, and a smattering of what I'm going to term ...

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Hey, I think we've discussed religion enough in this thread. If you guys would like to continue the conversation, please do so elsewhere.

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Hey, everyone, With a few days to go until the completion of this set, I wanted to check in with you, the community, on its progress: If everything goes well, all of the questions for this tournament should be written and edited by very late on Wednesday; it may be Thursday instead. Unfortunately, C...

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Stats are up at http://tinyurl.com/y8lnj53 . We're missing one score sheet, but we should be able to grab that in practice tomorrow and fix them up.

Thanks again to everyone who came!

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Oh, and I should note that Chicago, once again, has shown us how amazing they are, even without their lauded graduate students. Going 1-2-3 and winning the second playoff bracket is quite a feat!

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Congratulations to Chicago D, consisting of Shantanu, Matt, and Jimmy, for winning the Illinois mirror of EFT by defeating Chicago B in game two of an advantaged final! Coming in third was Chicago C. We'll have stats posted shorty, but I want to say that I was extremely impressed by the performance ...

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Good morning, everyone, I've updated the field above. Right now we're sitting at 25, which is slightly less awesome than what I had before. You can consider the field closed, but feel free to e-mail me if you're not on that list and you think you should be, or if you haven't registered and you want ...

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millionwaves wrote:
canaanbananarama wrote:Let me appreciate very much that my use of the word s-n-i-g-g-e-r-e-d, a perfectly acceptable English word, was censored by this board.
Sorry!

Also, everything that you said in your post was, in my experience, really good advice.

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canaanbananarama wrote:Let me appreciate very much that my use of the word s-n-i-g-g-e-r-e-d, a perfectly acceptable English word, was censored by this board.

Sorry!

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Hey, moderating decisions aren't up for discussion on this board; instead, use e-mail. I'm sorry I failed to keep up on our last e-mail conversation about this sort of thing, but I'm going to need you to stop cluttering up threads with this sort of posting right now, or I will ban you.

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To my knowledge, there aren't any mirrors of IO/TIT scheduled for anywhere less than 8 hours away from Carleton; further, the audiences are pretty divergent. As the TD of the Illinois site of IO, I'm officially ok with CUT running on the same day (although it is disappointing that this would seem to...

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In any case, the ruling was long overdue. The people are beside themselves with rapture so we stay indoors. The quest was only another adventure and the solution problematic, at any rate far off in the future. The people are beside themselves with rapture yet no one thinks to question the source of ...

millionwaves · Re: (11/14/09) Illinois Open at UIUC You and your details.

You and your details.

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What Jack said. We need to watch our budget this year and since we are already going to Early Bird the next week, I can't justify another trip to Urbana a week apart. We are planning to go to ACF Fall at UC on Oct 31. If you think we could convince you otherwise with a sizeable discount, I'm more t...

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