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Some updates: This set is now 50% written! We hope to host in person mirrors in all regions (with regions defined as they generally were pre-pandemic), conditions permitting. Mirrors will cost $45/team. There will also be an (open) online playtest mirror beforehand, probably in early January or so. ...

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Will you allow in person mirrors?

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Posting this publicly for full transparency: I discovered about two weeks ago that everyone with access to acf winter last year has had access to the answerline spreadsheet for MRNA VACCINE. I made a copy of the ACF winter spreadsheet from last year and moved it out of the folder, which google told ...

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What's the expected format of this/how long can we expect the event to run? Need to know to figure out if I'll be able to play.

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I am very excited to announce Medium RaNge Academic, a Vanderbilt and Company Collaboration vIa NEtwork (MRNA VACCINE) , which I imagine many will shorten to simply "MRNA." The set will be head edited by Eric Mukherjee and subject edited by the following team: Eric Mukherjee (formerly Penn...

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A few questions/observations here: Why is this a combined Southeast/Mid-Atlantic mirror when the first mirror of this set got a full field just in the Southeast (not sure about the size of the Mid-Atlantic field)? While I doubt there’s much overlap between players that want to play this and the COOT...

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Hi Lalit, the (still unnamed) medium difficulty set planned for Spring 2022 I posted a call for writers for ( https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24878 )* is moving full steam ahead. I am of the (obviously biased) opinion that the spring is rather full with ACF regs, SCT, HARI, the...

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R4: SDP seems like quite a hard answerline von Ranke is mega over-asked compared to his academic importance, especially when historiography only comes up a few times a tournament! I agree that SPD is definitely on the harder side (I certainly wouldn't put it in an easier set than this) but as one o...

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Misc thoughts from the rounds I played: R1: Vietnam War tossup felt potentially transparent (mentions a Stevens poem quite early, that narrows you down a lot) really like this daughters in art tu I am a noted hater of questions on characters, but I wonder if pantagruel was negged with gargantua a lo...

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I thought this was a strong set with lots of interesting content. I think it hit its difficulty goal pretty well overall. Powers felt pretty stingy to me, but that was to be expected based on last year, and though I think bonuses in this set were overall harder than regs this year, I think they were...

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Very excited for this! While I'll play 240 literature questions by pretty much anyone, it would be cool to see a sample packet (even like 5 questions would be good, I think).

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I don't mean to be overly confrontational, but I suppose I'll reraise the unaddressed issue of no advantaged final here. The email indicated there will be no advantaged final here. I still think is a quizbowl norm, and any set being presented (and charged for) as a full quizbowl tournament should c...

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While I sympathize with the unfortunate circumstances of online quiz bowl, I take issue with the packet limitation reason. College quiz bowl sets generally have at least 13 packets, with many having 15. Granted, this is an online tournament, and there has been some discussion about reducing the num...

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We have editors for all subjects now. We could still maybe use a writer or two in history, SS, or philosophy if anyone else is interested. Probably won't have an "official" announcement for the set for a while, but I'll list all of the editors here: Eric Mukherjee (head; bio, chem, physics...

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EDIT: mods pls delete i posted in wrong thread

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In the tiebreakers packet, there is a slight error in bonus 15. Dangarembga's The Book of Not was the sequel to Nervous Conditions, and This Mournable Body is the third book in the series. Nevertheless, always good to see Zimbabwean literature come up!

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Another update (also wow there's been a ton of interest in just two days!): Jaimie Carlson will edit the myth for this tournament. At this time, we are still searching for editors and writers in philosophy, social science, and history. Given the large amount of interest from writers, I am going to a...

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quick update: Will Alston will be editing auditory arts for this tournament. I'll be splitting the lit up with Jacob O'Rourke and Henry Atkins. We are still seeking editors in history (all subcategories), myth, phil, and SS. There was a large amount of interest from writers in just one day, so at th...

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Hello everyone, several members of the Vanderbilt club are planning on producing a medium-ish difficulty set (name TBD) in the spring of 2022, probably to be ready around February-March, but that detail can be nailed down later. Specifically, the set will aim to be a bit harder than EFT, while still...

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I, and at least a few other people I've spoken to, found the Turing tossup confusingly worded. My teammate buzzed and negged with Searle at the same place I would have, shortly before Searle's name was said. I had just studied the Chinese Room thought experiment with what I thought was a reasonable...

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In the tossup on Jacob Lawrence, unless I'm misremembering the wording, Gwendolyn Knight was mentioned, but only in the context of "she was his wife." I'm really not a fan of reducing female artists to "this [male] artist's wife," and I personally think it would have been better...

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I greatly enjoyed this set as a whole, including a number of individual questions, and hope to maybe come back and give some more thoughts once the packets are posted. Some personal highlights: the Germany tu in other ac that clued the history of higher ed, which might be the only time I'll get poin...

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I think 2 hours should be about right, considering there should be minimal breaks during a team's set of 100 bonuses (maybe like, a small 1 minute break after every 20?). Also presumably the staffing corps for this will be fairly elite. Also, unlike a normal tournament, this qualifier doesn't have t...

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This seems pretty reasonable given the circumstances, though I'd like to make one suggestion. As a precaution for the possibility of a lot of demand and not enough slots to try out enough teams, I think it would be a good idea to initially restrict registration for this event to a school's A and B ...

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Would love to see a North American mirror of this. Since it would presumably be a large staff commitment, I'm personally willing to pay a higher than usual entry fee to attract more freelance staff. Ditto. I do think this set could perhaps even work on a more regional level, given the difficulty. O...

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I also don't think the supersite contributed to this problem. The Midwest has several schools (including the three you mentioned) that are capable of hosting a tournament without their A team. It's also worth noting that we had the same problem with the Midwest in November and there would not have ...

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If slots fill up, I am also interested in a collaborator, particularly someone who likes poetry/wants to write the poetry questions.

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Feels worth pointing out that with (at least) 20 packets, you could probably run 2 tournaments of this set in each region. While this might constrain field sizes/format options a little bit, I think most teams don’t really want to play more than 10 rounds online anyways (especially for something wit...

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Yeah, I'm not gonna lie that we went very hard on the "no find your ass easy parts" philosophy for this set. Billy was very much on board with this for the science - so it was definitely very possible to get a zero there. This was intentional - I hate pity 10s. This game is hard, so when ...

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The only question I remember not liking was the tossup on Tlön, because the way it played it out in all instances I was aware involved early recognition of what story was being described (since there's a limited pool of details from which the question could draw), followed by a testing of the playe...

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I think currently this is the fairest way to do things, though I can appreciate the concern. I also think this concern really only exists with a field size of exactly 12*, as 11 rounds is generally considered too much for online quizbowl, and only doing crossovers against the top 3 teams from the ot...

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I found the Pointillism tossup super confusing given the pronoun "this style." I buzzed on the description of the Portrait of Felix Feneon with the answer portrait, because when I hear the phrase "this style" I think of traditional forms like portraiture, abstraction, history pa...

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the bonuses themed around rap music in literature (rap/The Hate U Give/Citizen) This was my favorite question in the set by a mile (made me glad I agreed to playing the packet even after 9 very long and tiring games, tbh) and I really like how it asked about YA novel The Hate U Give in a way that e...

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I greatly enjoyed editing the American Lit and Painting/Sculpture for this set. I plan on making a post about some of the differences between editing for a housewrite/set that doesn't utilize packet sub vs. one that does (so potential editors can evaluate which might be a better fit for them), but t...

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Here are two questions that I wrote down for negative reasons while playing the set. There are a much larger number of questions that I enjoyed, which I might comment on once I see the packets. There was a bonus about Massachusetts in literature that seemed to refer to The Crucible as being set in ...

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I guess that makes sense. It just reads like a "thought" tossup to me. Not really a big deal, was just curious.

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Why is the tossup on Aristotle's Poetics categorized as literature and not philosophy? I'm admittedly not very good at philosophy, but it just reads like a philosophy tossup to me.

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. -On the Colson Whitehead bonus, I'm not sure that Pulitzer Prize works as a easy/medium part, especially since The Underground Railroad also won the National Book Award (which is what we said). I didn't particularly think this was an issue, especially since the question said they're awarded by Co...

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Having two easy parts on Canada in the same packet (C) seems less than ideal

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I too can only play this on Sunday

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ramblinwreck wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:37 am In addition, bouncebacks will not be used at this mirror.

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As a vocal bounceback hater, I would also prefer this tournament didn't use them.

Also, I am searching teammates (that don't have aspirations to win the tournament) for this! I know some amount of lit and vfa.

edit: team found

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Update: Registration is now closed Final Field: Case Western Reserve University (2) Alabama University (1) Amherst College/Area (2) Stony Brook (2) Grinnell College (2) University of Iowa (3) Auburn University (1) Iowa State University (2) Carleton College (2) University of Minnesota (1) FWIW, the ...

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I'm becoming more convinced that Zoom tournaments need something other than the Zoom chat to handle buzzes. I was trying my hardest to notice buzzes but Zoom's minimalist chat interface makes it really hard to see them without just taking your eye from the packet every few seconds. Yeah, from readi...

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I'm sure the rest of Ethan's post is good, but Malcolm Gladwell is not an academic sociologist and I'm sure anyone who included him in a sociology question would be (rightly) ridiculed.

[he is a compelling speaker though]

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I'm not the most qualified to talk about studying for nats, so I'll just assume the advice given by the other very talented players in this thread is good. I did want to address a similar topic regarding transitioning from high school to college quizbowl (and nationals): mindset/expectations. A comm...

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I'm happy to see this tournament shifted to the fall and look forward to playing it! Given the concerns of the speed of online tournaments, we do not currently plan to use bouncebacks for these events, but we will allow tournament coordinators to make this decision for their own sites. you absolutel...

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Could teams that played SCT last year be surveyed relatively easily? Or this year as part of the registration process (if sct is able to occur), or ask hosts to distribute and scan in surveys along with scoresheets? That seems like a way to sample a larger portion of NAQT’s collegiate customer base.

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Does this mean that all of the mirrors are delayed as well, or just the main site?

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If this is going to be written at PACE difficulty it's probably a good idea to seek collegiate mirrors of the set.

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