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What would people think about dropping the clock, making games 26/26 (or 24/24, or something), but keeping the question length and the time to answer the same (i.e. both shorter than those of ACF)? I would still prefer some elements of ACF format, but I would quite like this! Agreed; these are the ...

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I'm a little confused as to how keeping the timer but creating a x TUs per game minimum is a good idea. Wouldn't this make rounds go at least as long as they would go without a timer, thus, well, making the clock moot anyway? Keeping the timer means that teams that play quickly (provided the mod is...

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I'm a little confused as to how keeping the timer but creating a x TUs per game minimum is a good idea. Wouldn't this make rounds go at least as long as they would go without a timer, thus, well, making the clock moot anyway?

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If voting is ever a factor in what happens (as is almost inevitably the case, unless NAQT is not actually interested in the thread), there should certainly be a runoff; I'm sensing that the "no, not Friday!" vote is split especially. This. (I agree that Saturday-only is vastly preferable,...

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at least one reader who would refuse to read/toss out questions with words she found difficult, which usually meant science questions What! This is miserable. Anyway, NAQT needs to take away this major concept from its examination of these criticisms: Before you write a question or put it into a se...

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What are people's thought on the use of clocks at ICT? Here it's very rare that you'll hear less than 20 tossups per round as the moderator quality is a lot better. No clocks! Anywhere! I've had some decent ICT mods and I've had some bad ones too, but the problem of the clock goes deeper than just ...

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samer wrote:FWIW, the antibiotic mentioned was valinomycin, not vancomycin.

Then I are wrong! I have no idea what valinomycin does (yet). Sorry, Matt!

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Hannah, any further thoughts on mitochondria and malaria? Though this isn't that great of an excuse, those were two of the very few bio questions originating from others, and I had way less time to write/edit than I would have liked this year (going back to like July...). Sure, although be forewarn...

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I agree that last year's SCT outstripped this one. Hopefully, NAQT will consider the differences between this year's process and last year's in approaching next year's SCT. For now, a few examples that really made me sad for reasons other than the fact that they were questionable answer choices in a...

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Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building. One of these things was accomplished by someone who is not only not a member of Harvard A, but not even a stu...

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Wall of Ham wrote:Perhaps, due to the naming system and the fact that sometimes either order is used for Asian names, the first name should be promptable?

First names are usually promptable for anyone, no matter the ethnicity.

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gkandlikar wrote:
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Hannah and I will be playing this tournament (at this site).
Does this mean you'll be playing on one team or on different teams?

--Gautam

One team; we submitted a packet together as well awhile back.

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No, sorry... it was a bonus on Neruda, if that helps at all.

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Oh, one other thing: I know that Swarthmore and Chicago A each had a bonus from their own packets that was placed into a packet that they later played. Swarthmore let me know and I moved on to the next bonus, and I was told that in Chicago's game the other team got the bonus, but sets should be exam...

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I had a really hard time moderating quite a few packets from this set because the grammar (and/or copy-editing) was pretty bad. The formatting inconsistencies (FTP or for 10 points, underlining/bolding/italicizing inconsistencies, etc.) don't inhibit reading, but missing verbs and just plain nonsens...

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We can't scrape up a team, so I'll come staff this.

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Dinner breaks are a just-plain-awful idea. People should just buy their favorite energy drink and chug if their ears are drooping around 7 PM. Better idea: TDs should make an effort to be efficient enough and construct a schedule such that teams are out by dinnertime, and teams should make an effor...

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Marchbanks wrote:
AdamL wrote: "Hannah Brandies"

Yeah, I corrected this multiple times. I'm glad it finally got corrected one last time.

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It was great to have the opportunity to play quizbowl in a new region, and thanks to UGA for hosting! That being said, I'd like to offer some constructive criticism on running tournaments; the tournament went so late that I was at one point a little concerned about how I would make my 8 a.m. flight ...

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Good job, editors; this was a fun set to play. A problem was the odd prevalence of repeated answers and information--multiple things on Portugal, a bonus part on Stravinsky's Missa Solemnis followed by a later bonus involving Stravinsky partly from mass clues, etc.--but this set had a pleasant pleth...

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doesn't require any particular intellectual curiosity because it's a smash pop bestseller that's been around for decades. Maybe this isn't what you meant, but I'm still seeing an implication, however it's explained (in terms of "seriousness" or "importance" etc), that being a &q...

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I'm wondering if future novice sets should even attempt to write on 1/1 chemistry. It wouldn't be much of a tragedy if there were three questions of biology, some of which had some chemistry content. Particularly considering that until sophomore year or so, at many schools, for many students, biolo...

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Normally, being made into a film shouldn't be a problem; a lot of prominent books have been made into films (e.g. To Kill A Mockingbird). But, if the film becomes too popular, does this transform an otherwise "legitimate/academic" literature work into "pop culture", ironically &...

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Panasonic Academic Challenge (now some other jumble of letters) used to have up to 6 teams playing at once. I think they did it by moving on to the next tossup after any incorrect answer, and penalizing that team the amount of points the tossup was worth (?). Most buzzer systems don't have lockout ...

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tetragrammatology wrote:Also, this bullshit assertion that "[offensive] content is one thing that can make your trash events less friendly to women" needs to be killed right about now.

Your offensive rap music makes my delicate lady ears cry rainbows!

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I do think that the "Boys' Club" atmosphere of quizbowl could probably be tuned down a bit. While playing with a lady on my team, you hear a lot of derisive "Oh, of course you got that, you're a girl" comments. Or people who think that your teammate is named The Girl, y'know as ...

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I've been bothered a while by what I consider the male slant to Trash. Although there are a few "girl" subjects that come up relatively regularly, like soap operas and musicals, these are the exceptions. I was surprised, for instance, that Twilight only got a (very easy) bonus part last T...

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To the utmost degree possible, I oppose turning any team away from any tournament (except for restricted eligibility events, which I think should be kept to a minimum). If there has to be a criterion on which to exclude, I'd rather it be "who's the best" than any other more arbitrary crit...

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My concern is that more and more high school teams might want to attend college tournaments in the future. This is the "slippery slope" I was referring to in my earlier post. What happens when there are more high school teams at college tournaments than there are college teams? There are ...

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I disagree with Hannah about this, for one simple reason (pertaining to this particular example, anyway): "Mere Christianity" and "Surprised by Joy" have nothing to do with the Chronicles of Narnia. Since the player buzzed in after these two works were mentioned, his answer shou...

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Yes, that player's answer should have been accepted.

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master15625 wrote:
master15625 wrote:I would like an invite to this as well.

ngurramaster7744 at gmail dot com
I got an invite to this, so I don't need another one. Thanks

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There was really only 0/1 Broadway? It seemed like there was at least 2 or 3 questions on that, since my teammates who are apparenlty big Broadway fans knew them. Also, 1/0 "film music" doesn't strike me as outrageous, but asking people to identify the composer of the Godfather as a tossu...

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Thanks to everyone who came! We played a triple round-robin with four teams, and Concord-Carlisle came out on top. Results can be found at http://results.scobo.net/brandeisquizbowl/fallnovice 1. Kai from MIT and Dennis Loo from the Harvard townie brigade were a major help. 2. This set was extraordin...

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Yeah, I meant this point to come out a lot clearer in my post. You can just type "respighi" into youtube to find some of his works, but you need to take a class or study an expensive o-chem textbook to learn about Diels-Alder. It's just difficult to learn science independently. http://www...

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The Diels-Alder reaction isn't even taught until second- or third- semester college organic chemistry, for what it's worth. That doesn't apply to any class whose syllabus I've read, and it sure doesn't apply to Harvard or MIT. Can you cite data on this? We learned it early in our first semester of ...

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I'm going to make the radical suggestion that once Harvard players were aware that there were 0 dedicated staffers, they should have stopped being players.

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Thanks for letting me know, Ben.

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Just a timing update: Because of the small field (unless other teams want to sign up, which I would be absolutely fine with!), it is not necessary that teams arrive until 8:30 a.m. I am confident that we will still be able to begin by 9.

Not That Kind of Christian!! · Re: Harvard International II/ Fake ACF (3/20/10) There should be cake.

There should be cake.

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Yes. Please.

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Here is one theory that I have. In a given time frame, a team has to decide whether they want to or don't want to go to certain tournaments. It may sometimes be difficult to decide whether a team is going to a tournament a few weeks in advance, or even a few days in advance. This might apply to, I ...

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My personal strategy (aside from visualizing an evil TD snatching late fees out of my not-quite-bulging bag of funds while simultaneously crying because of the pain late questions cause) is to give myself a set of deadlines for writing questions or packets that fits into my academic schedule, settin...

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I've used Lehninger when I've had to write bio questions; it's quite good. I'm a fan. Also, I'm pretty sure I recognized language from Lehninger in a MO tossup on lysozyme. So, while I'm not a high-profile science writer or player, I want to reinforce something that Jerry and Andy mentioned in slig...

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I'd love to play, perhaps as part of a bastard team. The date doesn't matter to me.

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The Grosse Fugue has not come up a great deal in quizbowl (and was a hard part at Minnesota Open, even.) It is an example of something I was talking about earlier where it is objectively much more important within music than its quizbowl reputation would lead one to believe, so I guarantee it was a...

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Sir Thopas wrote:I, too, have had no problems with OpenOffice, but I am also of the opinion that every tournament should have each round in .doc and .pdf.

Also, no Calibri.

I give this post an A-. A would suggest Gentium.

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Possible enhancement: print the passwords on (custom, they'd have to be) scoresheets because who on earth wants to handwrite passwords for 266 games? Hannah, apparently, but seriously. Heh, crosspost. Yeah, if I'd hadn't photocopied a kabillion scoresheets well in advance, I would have written it o...

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Come up with which packet you'll be reading during which round the night before. Write the round number and password on the number of scoresheets that you'll need per round. Have the TD/stats guru/whoever hand out the scoresheet for the next round when the moderator hands in the scoresheet from the...

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