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I didn't get points for saying "the prologue to Hopscotch" for the bonus part on the Table of Instructions. Was this a moderator error (possibly because of a long or complicated answerline) or was this a genuine omission by the packet? If the latter, I think the answer line should be expa...

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Someone in the General Discussion thread brought up an example of “bait,” which was disappointingly more widespread than one question. Off the top of my head, the E minor question had a sentence along the lines of, if I recall correctly, “Victor Herbert’s second cello concerto in this key inspired ...

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Hey everybody! I wanted to thank everybody for playing the set and for giving such helpful feedback -- publicly or privately -- as well as elucidate my editing philosophies on my categories (which, as outlined above, were World/Other Literature, Classical Music, and Popular Culture). In general, I s...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway

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settlej wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 11:35 am
Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:56 am
women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:28 am Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids I...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me Cour...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky ...

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Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. Weyes Blood - Movies M83 - Midnight City vs. Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk Azealia Banks - 212 vs. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night Adele - Rolling in the Deep vs. Earl Sweatshirt...

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#1 Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko #8 Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. #9 Ariana Grande - thank u, next #5 Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. #12 Danny Brown (ft. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe #4 Lorde - Royal...

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I have a couple takes: - Acton-Boxborough should definitely be regarded as a threat to even nationally-contending teams -- last year, Basil received 5th place at IPNCT and narrowly beat Auburn in HSNCT prelims, and he will have had a whole year to improve on these results by the time nationals seaso...

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#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) #5 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company vs. #12 M.I.A. - Bad Gir...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Bon Iver - Holocene vs. Perfume Genius - Queen Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) vs. Björk - Stonemilker Beach House - Space Song vs. Rosalía - Malam...

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us #16 Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - O...

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I thought that this set was overall very polished and enjoyable to play, and I particularly admired the inventive yet accessible ways that the editors incorporated salient topics centering on women / POC / other marginalized communities into the set's content. The literature, history, arts, and popu...

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1: This Achebe tossup seems really hard, and seems reasonably likely to get frauded at "Obi," though perhaps I'm wrong and people actually read his short stories. By the time "Obi" is dropped (which is also a well-known clue, given that he's the protagonist of one of Achebe's mo...

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While I do strongly agree with this post overall and also believe that people should not be dropping the ball with regards to their set writing and editing commitments (having also worked on sets where people have dropped the ball and subsequently having had to spend time and labor to make up for it...

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Although they're hardly exhaustive, NAQT's You Gotta Know lists are a great (and free!) place to start for all subjects. As far as progressing through the canon goes, it's simply not possible for one player to read every single work in the high school literature canon, so you should really just pick...

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Can I see the tossup on Assassins ? I didn't recognize any of the early clues. A man in this musical complains about not having a “hamburger that’s fuckin’ hot” before shouting, “Don’t blame me, I’m from Massachusetts!”. In this musical, a man who proclaims that “first prize often goes to rank begi...

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This may be just me (due to having been on the losing end of the upset), but Williams upsetting Chicago at D2 ICT was pretty wild – their lead scorer Jonathan Williams got about a third of his powers for the entire tournament in that single game, handing us our only non-UMD loss. They went on to get...

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DCC played FST at UChicago this past weekend, which appears to be unaccounted for.

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Based on my casual interest and general knowledge of the circuit, I would posit that Hunter will see the most success at HSNCT, followed by Ithaca and High Tech. The reason I would give Ithaca the edge here would be because they seem to be much stronger on the NAQT distribution (especially with Isai...

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Joseph then later PMed me (after the tournament) assuring that he did not have access to the email between when I sent the questions and when he played them. He also PMed my teammate Shawn a long explanation of his performance (which I excerpted below) that broadly claimed that he was confused abou...

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It's my turn to shill! (As many have said above, this is by no means an exhaustive list.) - Ben Miller is a ridiculously amazing history player with iron-clad consistency, incredibly low neg numbers, and the ability to scale (he was also leading scorer on Chicago B at SGI and PIANO!). Grant Li is an...

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Could I see the tossup on "Anne Bradstreet's House"? A metaphorical version of this place is described as the source of “rags” used to clothe a poem’s title object, which is then told, “In this array, ‘mongst vulgars may’st thou roam.” While passing through this place, a woman remarks how...

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Can I see the tossup on Dirichlet? Nikhil mentioned that it clued L-functions but I didn't recognize that during the game. Also, the clue about Dirichlet's approximation theorem is incredibly hard to buzz on at game speed, because Liouville has an incredibly similar theorem (this can be remedied ea...

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I think that quizbowl has shown repeatedly at all levels that it can't be trusted not to cheat, and I think the existence of links that tell you literally every answer to expect in the tournament is a recipe for cheating, so I don't think it's a good idea to have this thread until the set is totall...

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It is worth noting that, as far as I know (I may be mistaken!), UCLA will not be fielding the roster that many assumed that they would at the season's outset, and Texas's D2 players will be playing D1, so voters should take these changes from the preseason into account. My quick take is that Chicago...

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My teammates and I were quite confused by the fact that San Francisco came up in some form multiple times, particularly in the first half of the day. Other issues that we found a little jarring included the three-ish London architecture-related answerlines in Round 8 (I think?), the hunger strikes t...

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Mitski

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Mitski
Lucy Dacus

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Snail Mail - Lush This matchup was very difficult to make up my mind on, and subjectively, I still like Be the Cowboy ever so slightly more, but I have to give it to Lush . #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #2: Pusha-T - Daytona #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden...

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Especially if you're starting out, learning clues that come up for works and authors is crucial – I carded a ton of literature clues for novels and short fiction in May and July, and that definitely gave me a great foundation from which to expand my knowledge further while still getting me points. R...

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Only doing top 10, since I'm probably not familiar enough with the songs that would be in my bottom 10: 1. "New Rules" - Dua Lipa: You can't really go wrong with Dua Lipa (the album, but the artist as well), and "New Rules" is quite clearly one of the best songs in an already sta...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimite...

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Barrington HS, being in Rhode Island, is also outside the region of the poll. However, they exclusively play tournaments in the NY region. As such, I decided to make an exception for them. My decision in this matter is final. Wait, what? Barrington has played two tournaments and registered for two ...

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Wonyoung also got duped out of the Haywain tossup, since he figured out it was Bosch as intended from the Temptation of St. Anthony clue, and then said "Garden of Earthly Delights," which notably also has fires going on in the right panel. To clarify: while my buzz right after the second ...

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To those I've met and befriended over the last two years up here: thank you for your collegiality, conversation, and passion. I'll be leaving my alma mater at the end of next week to begin a job in Washington, D.C., but will remain forever grateful for the opportunity to rejoin — as a coach — a str...

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I meant to post this a while back and never got around to it, but the Dukas tossup says that the main melody played by the bassoons in The Sorcerer's Apprentice is in 3/8 time, when it is actually in 9/8 time. Nope: (The opening is in 9/8 though.) Oh, I thought it was referring to the opening, sinc...

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I meant to post this a while back and never got around to it, but the Dukas tossup says that the main melody played by the bassoons in The Sorcerer's Apprentice is in 3/8 time, when it is actually in 9/8 time.

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I'm not sure which round it was (it was in the first five rounds) and I don't have access to the packets at the moment, but there was one bonus that was inappropriate for a high school set. The answer was paper, which could have been asked in a multitude of ways, but it clued from a piece of perfor...

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It appears that the radio silence after Charles' post was, as you'd expect, not a good sign; word from a friend of mine at Blue Ridge today is that rounds 1-5 didn't make it to the tournament host until 7:15 this morning, round 6 didn't arrive until just before lunch, and round 7 didn't arrive at a...

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Issues that I was told about by my mods. China and Japan were repeated in the first round. In round 1, there was also a tossup and a bonus about suicide. In packet 9, there's a bonus about the Amazons where the answerline is women; Amazons should probably be accepted as well, since all of the Amazo...

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As for the music, I agree with the above comments that the score clues probably could have been used in a more consistent manner as they ranged from the very recognizable opening chord of Don Giovanni as the first clue for a Don Giovanni TU to a long, drawn-out score clue from Liebestraume in a bon...

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[Neg5] also alleviated the need for a stats room and runners. This, in my opinion, is one of the biggest pitfalls about Neg5 (aside from the obvious issues with stats accessibility, overall glitchiness, and so on). A well-run tournament will almost always have a separate control room with at least ...

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The names in bonuses were a bit much at times, but less so than the last Penn Bowl I played. Bonus parts on Laurel McKelva and Undine Spragg just really don't need to exist and are fairly uninteresting. For that Wharton bonus, you can easily just make the hard part Custom of the Country and not dro...

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I'm curious to see the results if A-sets were counted, as they are in HSQBRank (I don't believe MSNCT is). Would the rankings change significantly?

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At least based on PHSAT results, I think it's fair to say that Hunter has recovered from their losses much quicker than anticipated, winning the tournament outright while missing Brian Lu.

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I think the top 5 teams right now in New England including NY are the following: 1. Hunter From what I've seen from his forum posts, Daniel's talent is only eclipsed by his humility in saying that several teams will surpass his team. Let's face it. Hunter is and has been the best high school team i...

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