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A few recommendations, in no particular order: Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars... (Dwight Yoakam) Stranger to Stranger (Paul Simon) A Sailor's Guide to Earth (Sturgill Simpson) That's by no means comprehensive. I tend to use year-end lists in December as a means of finding new music that was released in...

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As of 12/11, the Goldenrod Cup standings are as follows: 1. Henderson County A (28 points) 2. duPont Manual A (27 points) 3. Danville (18 points) t-4. Woodford County A (15 points) t-4. Glasgow (15 points) 6. Daviess County (11 points) 7. Campbell County A (10 points) 8. Henderson County B (9 points...

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Turgon the Slain, once King of Gondolin wrote:Any chance we can get the point totals updated? We've already had the Hilltopper and Class Act tourneys since the last time.
Thanks!

We'll get an update up this weekend.

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3. ACF Fall becomes a PADAWAN-style training ground for inexperienced writers. There's a lot of good writing talent in the community that goes untapped because a lot of people don't ever get the chance to write for an event because they aren't well-known enough. It would be a good way to simultaneo...

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Can I see the tossups on Australian aborigines, Italy joining the Allies (or something like this), and Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Whatever problems plagued the production of this set did not harm it too much: I enjoyed this set a lot (at least the history and CE, which is all I can credibly comment on), perhaps even more than last year's Penn Bowl.

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I've only occasionally watched SNL this season, but this seemed like one of the better episodes I had seen in a long, long time. I'll remember "David S. Pumpkins" and "Doug" more fondly than half the characters that Tom Hanks has played in movies.

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I think at some point you suggested this tournament was going to fall somewhere between MUT and MAGNI on the difficulty scale. Assuming you meant the more recent iterations of MUT which were closer to "regular-minus," I think EFT fit right into that target. I envision "regular-minus&q...

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I would like to make it clear that this set was largely completed at the start of the tournament. Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, a handful of science questions were unwritten at the start of the tournament; this caused a slight delay and complications in packetizing some of the packets...

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Does that mean questions on Bob Dylan can finally stop being shoved under the trash distro? For the most part, no. This does raise an interesting possibility: when the popular 20th century music genres fade into relative obscurity (which won't happen until we're all dead) then future quizbowlers ma...

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In addition, we have a new constituent tournament to announce: the Johnson Central Invitational , on December 3rd in Paintsville, is now part of the Goldenrod Cup! This will be added to the first post in the thread as soon as I can get ahold of Nick to do so. :) We've never had two tournaments on t...

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I am thrilled to see some new tournaments this year, but having two tournaments in the same half of the state on the same day isn't ideal for anybody involved. I would encourage hosts to check and see if the dates for their tournaments do not conflict with something already announced, because it won...

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There used to be an "All-A" quick recall championship in Kentucky too, where public and private schools competed against one another. I believe that strong public school teams (Pikeville, Edmonson County, etc.) were regularly in contention for the title. I'm not sure why it ended, but I de...

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You should have gotten a message from somebody already, but just in case you haven't, Louisville is planning to have one team at this.

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I look forward to Dylan's Nobel Prize speech, in which he performs for the committee with things he wants to play instead of the hits they came to hear, and they get upset about his condition to move the proceedings to a minor league baseball stadium.

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I look forward to some flavorful questions

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I think continuing to prevent selective public schools from playing, while allowing both charter AND private schools, is only a magnification of the very double standard that I had such a problem with in the first place. Although perhaps it's good that selective public schools are singled out and pr...

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My interpretation is that this allows traditional public, non-selective students in one division, and either non-selective charter schools or private schools in the other. Does SSNCT still not allow any school with a selective admissions policy to attend? Either way, how does that apply to private s...

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I have to say this, because it's not obvious from what I've said so far...I believe small schools are small schools and literally do not care how NAQT defines that beyond having a consistent policy that actually makes sense. I coached at a publicly funded school with roughly 120 students for two yea...

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Charter schools should be allowed to play SSNCT. Private schools should be allowed to play SSNCT. If you don't want to lose to those teams, then get good(er). The purpose of a national championship is to determine the best team in the country. If you're going to host a small school national champio...

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I am very pleased that my comments draw the ire of people who don't agree with them. I stand by them fully. Charter schools are not public schools. I don't care whether or not Virginia believes me. EDIT: I would also like to add that nothing in my "less equal" comments diverge much from th...

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Don't quote Donald Trump as a joke, for one. Don't listen to this man. As to the main point of the thread, attend lots of tournaments, practice as often as you can, and start writing questions as often as it's necessary. Writing a packet for a regular difficulty tournament can be a daunting task fo...

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Are there mirrors of this tournament planned?

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Current Standings (As of September 22, 2015) 1. Woodford County A (7 points) 2. Dunbar A (5 points) 3. DuPont Manual A (4 points) 4. Henderson County A (2 points) The next event is the Casey Young Memorial Tournament at the University of Louisville on October 8. We hope to see lots of Kentucky teams...

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The announcement for this year's Goldenrod Cup is posted. The next event is the Casey Young Memorial Tournament at the University of Louisville on October 8. We are still accepting tournaments for affiliation this year, so if you have a high school event you are planning but just haven't announced i...

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The Kentucky Quizbowl Alliance is excited to announce the third annual edition of the Goldenrod Cup! The Goldenrod Cup is an annual competition that aggregates the results of affiliated good quizbowl tournaments held in the state of Kentucky. A Kentucky team who wins a Goldenrod Cup event will recei...

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Quick note: NAQT State will be on March 4 at a location to be determined. KQBA will announce more details soon.

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To take Devin's point further: if Michigan developed a school voucher system that provided public funds to pay for students to attend Sacred Heart free of charge, they would still be ineligible for SSNCT to the best of my knowledge. Even if Sacred Heart admitted students by lottery (since presumably...

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Charter schools are not operated by a government authority, but instead are operated by private contractors (which range from for-profit corporations to churches which teach students that Jesus rode dinosaurs) who receive subsidies for their educational firm. While the definition of "public&quo...

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Hi everybody! I know there was a post along this same line in the past couple of years, but I'd like to ask this so I have a better picture of what things are like before I take the plunge. I'm currently a freshman at Ball State in Indiana. I did scholastic bowl for all four years of high school in...

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quizbowllee wrote:Players at HSNCT heckled them. Apparently even an instructor at ACE Camp made disparaging remarks to them in front of their camp-mates.

As ridiculous as this behavior is, why am I not the least bit surprised that it happened?

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Louisville returns Kurtis Droge, Ramapriya Rangaraju, and myself. Megan Seldon has graduated so our 4th spot is up in the air for now.

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The annual fall high school quizbowl tournament at the University of Louisville has been renamed the Casey Young Memorial Tournament. Casey was a quizbowl player at both Simon Kenton and UofL who passed away over the summer. The tournament will be held on October 8 on UofL's campus, and will use NAQ...

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Adventure Temple Trail wrote:
Victor Prieto wrote:Resurrecting this thread to strongly recommend Malcolm Gladwell
do not

Auks Ran Ova wrote:listen to chapo trap house

These are both good and correct opinions that people should adopt as their own.

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Gonna go ahead and post what I know since I won't be able to get the calendar up until next week most likely: Glasgow is hosting their season kickoff tournament again on August 27. Louisville is (tentatively) hosting our fall tournament on October 8. Kentucky is hosting their fall tournament on Octo...

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August 27: Glasgow Scottie Invitational (Glasgow) September 3: (Labor Day Weekend) September 10: September 17: September 24: October 1: October 8: Casey Young Memorial Tournament (Louisville) October 15: October 22: Cambell County Middle School Classic (Alexandria) October 29: University of Kentucky...

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Cheynem wrote:People will be reading some of the recently posted packets (Orlando Hybrid and VETO) that were not widely read in the United States

Celebrate Independence Day in the most American way possible: consuming affordable goods made by people in other countries!

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This is a good list with at least three places on it that I have really enjoyed at some point. I'm partial to burger places and Tolly Ho is my recommendation to anybody who wants a burger this weekend. Smashing Tomato has really good pizza, and I've had a couple really good steaks at Malone's; for t...

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Daviess County usually goes to several pyramidal tournaments a year, and have been doing so for a long time. I've never quite understood why they still attend NAC. EDIT: From the Daviess County HS Facebook page, it looks like they won NAC this year. Good for them, I guess. I hope they attend HSNCT n...

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I would argue that the enforcement of the "minimum number of players" rule at this tournament is outright unethical. If this was a longstanding rule it would merely be a bad rule that should be changed, but in this case it's basically been sprung on teams and then used to knock somebody ou...

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I understand the disdain for NAC, but the lack of pyramidal tournaments in Indiana is a leading cause of us playing NAC, it's a real bummer. Assuming you are the same Harrison I read for at JCPS Pre-Nats this year, the University of Louisville--and now, JCPS as well, it seems--host fall and spring ...

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Guy Jordan, WKU Quizbowl faculty advisor and a quizbowl player for George Washington, Maryland, Harvard, and UMass at various points in the 1990s and 2000s, is appearing on 500 Questions again tonight. I neglected to post something before, but he was also on the last two episodes (Saturday 5/28 and ...

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I don't think NAQT is likely to create more sets, but contacting them directly would be more effective than listening to random people offer their hot takes on a message board. In contrast with some of the other people who've offered their views here, I think it's entirely reasonable for teams in Al...

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Given the allusions to the Michigan Fall Tournament of 2013, that seems likely. This tournament happened, and I don't think anyone was up in arms about it. Most people were fine with top level players playing MFT, although... I really liked this tournament, and was really disappointed that several ...

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I am likely to attend the non-ICT portions of this event due to proximity, although I will have to make sure my schedule isn't too full that weekend. If I have some time, I may also be willing to organize a social gathering for interested parties.

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1. Gradates. Does the set properly distinguish between all teams? Could, for example, Dickety Doo U and Maryland B (the two weakest teams in a field, let's say) have a meaningful game on it, but also Michigan A and Chicago A? I'm not saying there aren't a few muddy games here and there, but you als...

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like in high schools, you will get better responses when you ask teams to bring buzzers. One, HS teams at least in my experience are more likely to have a working, functional buzzer, due to the continuity nature of HS programs (if you have a coach, that person is there r...

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Alright fine, my system is stupid. Just don't keep bitching about this problem without trying to find a solution, is all I'm saying. We have this conversation EVERY year, and nobody ever does anything about it. Surely somebody in quizbowl has the ability to sit down for more than 15 minutes and come...

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I think there are two problems with how "buzzer discounts" are constructed that allow these problems to persist: One is that we sell teams on the idea that the baseline fee is [x] dollars, and that a total of [y] dollars are subtracted from the normal fee if you bring a buzzer set. Perhaps...

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I may be off base, but I think "referendum" usually implies a vote on existing legislation whereas initiative is citizen-organized legislation. That's correct, although I think an argument could be made that this tossup wouldn't have looked any different had it been straight up about Cali...

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