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1992 in spaceflight

When Doves Cry, but both of these are excellent songs. Great choice for the finals, quizbowl.

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The initial field for WUHSAC has filled. There are currently 4 teams on the waitlist, but I would like to encourage everybody to keep registering, as if I get the staff, I am willing to expand.

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6 spots are left in the field before we start the initial waitlist. Register soon if you haven't yet and you want to secure a spot!

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80s BRACKET QUARTERFINALS SUBMIT VOTES BY 11:59 PM PST 12/30 BRACKET LEFT 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" vs. 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come on Eileen" 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" vs. 3 Prince, "When Doves Cry" BRACKET RIGHT 1 Michael Jackson, "Billie J...

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Field (34/36) : -College Heights Christian (1 team, 2 staffers) -Washington (2 teams, 1 staffer) -Eldon (1 team, 0 staffers) -Detroit Country Day [MI] (2 teams, 0 staffers) -Orchard Farm (2 teams, 1 staffer) -Kinkaid [TX] (1 team, 0 staffers) -Parkview (1 team, 0 staffers) -Mexico (2 teams, 1 staff...

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Just want to clarify: the first two teams from a school will be given priority in the field. C (and subsequent) teams will be put onto a waitlist with an eye towards expansion.

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The Washington University Quiz Bowl team is excited to announce the twenty-third annual WUHSAC, to be held “at” Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, February 27th, 2021. My name is Jacob O’Rourke, and I'll serve as tournament director for this year's tournament. The set is once again a mi...

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1 Madonna, "Like a Virgin" vs. 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" - I was kind of surprised by my reaction to this, but hey-this is a good song. 8 Bruce Springsteen, "Born in the USA" vs. 9 AC/DC, "Back in Black" - This was a tough matchup. AC/DC gets it because 1...

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There are buzzer websites like buzzin.live that explicitly correct for latency. To me, this seems like a Pareto improvement over the current Discord buzzing. These websites are also easy to use and free. I'm curious what other solutions have been tested and what others think about this EDIT: buzzin...

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This set was exactly what I want to see ACF Fall be, so I just wanted to say thank you to Ben and all of the other editors for making this set happen. I staffed Fall for the first time in....6 years, I think, today, and I was very happy I did so. I also want to second what Stephen is saying about th...

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Someone noticed I accidentally had two dates in the announcement. Just want to clarify-this tournament is happening on October 24th. My apologies for the error.

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1992 in spaceflight wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:56 pmStats will hopefully be up by tonight, or at the latest Monday.

Stats are up here. Please let me know if you see anything that needs to be corrected.

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After last night, St. Mark's finished 8-2 and WUSTL A and Texas C finished 7-3. All of the teams involved agreed to play it off today, which we just finished up. WUSTL defeated Texas C 345-175 to set up a disadvantage in the final against St. Mark's. In a game that came down to the final bonus to de...

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The tournament field has closed at 8 teams. See you all tomorrow!

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The American Quiz Bowl League will be hosting a Midwest (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio) Regional Mirror of a house-produced set on Saturday, October 24th. The tournament will be run by me. Date and Time The tournament will take place on October 24 on Discord, start...

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The field for this tournament will close on Friday around noon. If you're interested in playing, get your registrations in by then, please!

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Jade, everyone has a bad tournament. Sometimes it's your first tournament, sometimes it's your 100th. Everyone can direct a bad tournament; most of the greatest TDs in the history of quizbowl have directed bad tournaments in their career. (I have definitely directed a bad tournament in my time, and ...

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Current Mirrors : -Pennsylvania Quizbowl Season Opener-Novice Tournament (10/03/2020)-Contact Ben Herman (bherman1993 at gmail.com) for more information. Stats -Columbian Exposition 7 (10/03/2020)-Contact Greg Bossick (greg.bossick at gmail.com) for more information. Stats -Fulton (10/17/2020)-Cont...

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I decided to post a new mirroring post for this season. You can find the new announcement here.

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Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that the MOQBA Novice set will be available for mirrors nationwide (and internationally too, if there’s interest)! As the name indicates, this is going to be a novice set. We plan on aiming for the difficulty of the past several SCOP Novice sets. The set is b...

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You can view the field for this site (and any other site) on this sheet.

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Just wanted to reiterate what Anish edited his post to say earlier, and that we have a full writing and editing team. Thanks to everyone who applied!

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I personally find the "clunky" moderator instruction less clunky than printing the same answerline twice; I also think this moderator instruction is perfectly clear. In general, I think giving fewer distinct instructions is better; I prefer "accept either underlined portion" for...

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Hello everyone, Just wanted to provide an update on editors, since Anish editing his post would cause it to go back into the moderating que. We're still looking for editors for Auditory Fine Arts, Geography/CE , RM, P/SS and Pop Culture for this set. Head Editor: Jacob O'Rourke [formerly Truman Stat...

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As part of a personal project I did this past season, I made a conversion stats sheet for CALISTO. If you're interested in viewing my data, you can find the sheet here.

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Hello everyone! I’m pleased to announce that I, Jacob O’Rourke, will be directing the Lower Midwest, Texas and Rockies Mirror of IKEA, a medium-difficulty set written by the clubs at Columbia and Georgia Tech. This mirror will take place on October 3rd. Other details, such as the distribution and th...

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I believe Sam Lindsey is going to be a senior this year.

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Well, expect a lot of Sunday tournaments, then... The ACT and SAT are not going to schedule around quizbowl. Why should quizbowl, which already has to worry about making sure it spaces out events enough to not conflict with an existing quizbowl tournament, have to worry about the ACT or SAT unless ...

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Trash can be historically important, but can pop culture not be important in the present? Can a 2020 regionals bonus on the WNBA not reflect a growing recognition of that league, its players, their advocacy? Isn't a question on Megan Rapinoe (as a player) be just as much a comment on her broader ex...

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I don't imagine this post will be popular, but for fully online tournaments are lunch/dinner breaks really necessary? I've played in four full-day tournaments now, and all of them had a 45 minute or hour lunch break, which seems unnecessary when one is probably just going to the fridge and making a...

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JA01 wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 8:34 pm Are you taking reservations for mirrors for 2020-2021 at this moment?

Go ahead and email me.

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I am quote excited for this side event.

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Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood --If it was the original by The Animals, I'd be voting against Queen here. Also, it's worth noting that the best song on A Night at the Opera is certainly "Death on Two Legs." Are you sure it isn't "I'm in Love with my Car?"

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The set will appear here once it's been approved. Thanks to everyone who played and hosted!

1992 in spaceflight

The set will appear here once it's been approved. Thanks to everyone who played and hosted!

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So, a few things to wrap-up here: 1. I did what I do for every one of my sets that I edit and make a conversion stats spreadsheet. The one for LOGIC can be found here , if you're interested. 2. The set is now officially clear. I'll be posting it once I get back home from work tonight and have a chan...

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I'll be posting the set either tomorrow or Tuesday, so the set can be considered cleared for discussion.

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Congratulations to Augur Bit A, who defeated Wayzata & Friends 480-295 in round 13 to clinch the LOGIC Online tournament title! Wayzata & Friends defeated Bytes of the Round Table 440-340 in a play-in game in round 11 to make the final. Thanks to everyone who played the set both today and th...

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I'm going to keep the field open until 5 PM central on Thursday, April 16th. If you want to register, do so by then!

(any free agents on the sheet who aren't on a team by then will be randomly assigned)

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So this has been shared with the WAIT writing and editing team already, but here is the data I've been able to collect on the set for this season. It's available on this spreadsheet.

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Since we didn't use an advanced stats system, I decided to use a Google Sheet to track conversion stats for each mirror and overall, along with entering some scoresheet data. You can see all of the data that I have here.

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I’m pleased to announce the LOGIC Online Mirror, which will be a mirror of the LOGIC set on April 19th, 2020. This mirror will be conducted over Discord. I head edited the LOGIC set, and will be serving as the tournament director of this event. The tournament is tentatively capped at 12 teams, altho...

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A_Failure wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:37 pm
1992 in spaceflight wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:17 pm April 19th is the date with the most votes, so we'll be running the mirror on that date. Expect a post for the online mirror to be up by this weekend.
Is this happening?

It will. I've had some delays on my end. It should be up by Wednesday.

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I've never been more excited for a packet in my life.

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This, along with Matt Mitchell's recent post (which has some Western-US-specific notes, but a lot of similar issues about expanding to new schools in general), is a great step forward though it's notable that such proposals seem to not generate as much enthusiastic discussion as other topics. [EFT-...

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I'm going to give people until I go to bed on March 22nd before I say that LOGIC is clear to be posted. If you are hosting a tournament and would like to use our set, please let me know soon! Given the large amount of cancellations that are likely to result due to the COVID-19 outbreak, are there a...

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April 19th is the date with the most votes, so we'll be running the mirror on that date. Expect a post for the online mirror to be up by this weekend.

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I'm going to select a date for the online mirror by 5PM Central Time on the 24th, so make sure to vote by then!

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I'm going to give people until I go to bed on March 22nd before I say that LOGIC is clear to be posted. If you are hosting a tournament and would like to use our set, please let me know soon! Given the large amount of cancellations that are likely to result due to the COVID-19 outbreak, are there a...

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With the mass cancellations happening due to COVID-19, I've decided to delay releasing LOGIC to give teams who were affected by the cancellation a chance to play the set online.

If you would be interested in playing and have not played it at a live mirror, please vote in the poll!

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