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Hey folks, we might have to set a field cap soon, so keep registering! Right now we have 13-14 teams registered.

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They'll be posted here. The delay is on UMD's end, not HSAPQ, but they should be getting them soon.

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My quizbowl career is over after I graduate. It's been a fun 8 years, and I might get dragged out of retirement to play an open or something, but it's time to move on. As a way to cement my legacy, I'm writing a "fun" tournament that I want to be run sometime in 2015.

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Matt Jackson's post is the post I agree with the most in this thread, by a wide margin. A lot of the other posts make me kind of uncomfortable for reasons I'm not exactly sure I can articulate, but here's an attempt. However, outside of novice tournaments, there is little reason to neuter high schoo...

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Yeah, I think I'd need to hear her rationale for refusing, here. If it's not a budget thing, what exactly is it? I had a coach in high school who was often... less than accommodating about going to tournaments, but that was more a result of there being bad tournaments and formats taking up a lot of ...

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Wow, a needle to other writers that includes me and a complete misunderstanding of what people like Sam Bailey are complaining about above! DRAGOON was creatively written whether you think so or not. e.g., You should take a look at Eric's notes about how the science for DRAGOON (specifically how mo...

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My fault about the Parfit bonus. I meant to change it and apparently never did. It'll be something easier for future mirrors.

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Hey, this tournament is in, like, a week! Have you signed up yet? Why not?

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Maaaybe we'll playtest some other, too! WHO KNOWS

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GW and Penn are the only teams I've received registrations from. If you want to register, email me!

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Hello. There were some questions at this tournament that I got. They were good questions, because I got them. I especially thought the question on She Stoops to Conquer was good, because I powered it. This tournament adequately rewarded my knowledge in most aspects, and so I liked it. It was a quali...

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After this tournament, this site will run an event based on difficult 3-5 line questions Maryland players have written for practice over the past year. The distribution will be roughly even with the normal distro, though the difficulty will range from "regular" to "basically impossibl...

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Registration is still open and will be until Saturday. Send 'em in, local teams.

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Field Update Post:
Penn, 3 teams
George Washington, 2 teams
William and Mary, 1 team
UVA, 2-3 teams
VCU, 1 team

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I emailed it to Will a long time ago; if there's someone else who should be emailed, let me know.

EDIT: Here it is!

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I can't even find the tournament announcement - does anyone at least know what unwritten set this is referring to? Honestly, I'm fairly certain that a lot of the writers of the first tournament had no idea either [including myself], so they just wrote something that they thought matched the feel of...

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Something More Easily Remembered wrote:Also, I wouldn't consider an Ivy League school a "middle-of-nowhere shack".

He's joking, because he goes to an Ivy League school and that's VERY IMPRESSIVE

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Everyone just can't stop asking me, "Isaac Hirsch, what do you think about this random joke in an unrelated tournament announcement?" I've had enough of being bothered about it, so I guess I have to offer my opinion. I don't really think it's unpleasant or uncivil or whatever, as Princeton...

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This is the announcement for the Maryland site of SUBMIT, a collaboration between writing teams from Berkeley and UMD. More info on the tournament itself can be found in this thread . It's a packet submission tournament; take a look at the thread for full details. It will be taking place on February...

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This tournament happened. Congrats to Johns Hopkins for winning it. Maryland A got second place. Stats will be up soon.

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This is an announcement for The University of Maryland's Spring Classic High School Tournament 2014 at the University of Maryland, College Park. It will be held on the University's campus on Saturday. May 3rd. The tournament will be written by members of the University's Academic Quiz team, with 20/...

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Maryland would like to claim May 3rd for the almost-annual Maryland Spring Tournament.

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Crud, I forgot UNC.

Anyway, here's your obligatory plug for Maryland B, which will totally be a top 25 team next year.

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I agree with what's been said so far, pretty much. Some good ideas, inconsistent difficulty, needed more editing. It was kind of frustrating at times but mostly fun and playable.

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Hey, anyone who is on the fence about playing this tournament-- play it with me. I am registered to play alone due to some unfortunate circumstances.

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Mark Reynolds was by me-- sorry. Matt asked for a sports question and I said "I have this crappy question on Mark Reynolds I wrote for the VCU Open Side Event" but I should've just written something new. My bad.

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Oh yeah, sorry for the delay. It was sent off to Will Butler.

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While I can't speak at all for what Marshall's philosophy towards difficulty is nor can I judge anything about American history, but surely there is a minimum amount of knowledge needed to acquire a 10? This isn't the tournament to be giving out 10s because you know that the first President of Amer...

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That would, of course, you know, always require having an account [that I could remember the login to].

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My favorite thing about the article on UMD is either that it has a subhead for "Past Members," "Current Members," and then "Former Members," with no distinction between 1 and 3, and that all but one of the current members are gone.

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Absolutely. It'll start a little after 6 and be somewhere on the first floor of Jiminez.

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I just want to say that idea of a tournament being "For us, by us" and then insinuating it'd be unfair that old vets who didn't submit a packet wouldn't get to play when some folks we've never even HEARD OF would is the exact opposite of what "for us, by us" should be.

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SirT wrote:The jazz in this set was far too hard.

Yeah, I love jazz, and I'm happy to see it come up more, but most of the jazz was just too hard for the teams playing this [and me, honestly. Wasn't there a bonus where Art Tatum was the middle part?]

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Yes. We'll be meeting today.

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Obviously cleaning it up would be an extremely desirable thing, but one thing to consider is that /lobby can at times be a good environment for practice between multiple non-stupid users. While activity on HSQB is a fine way of connecting names with schools, trophies, et cetera, it's not going to b...

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Visiting Protobowl recently seemed to confirm to me that it's the worst, as one player just kept spamming the n-word as his answer and people seemed to think this was charming and hilarious.

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I am just very confused as to the purpose of this thread. Do we really need to say "If you invest time into this, you will be good?" If we do, do we need to quantify how good someone will be after investing arbitrary amounts of time?

[The answer to both of these questions is no.]

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But I think you're missing the point a little. The statement was meant to serve as a general premise. Even if we're expanding nationally, we still need to be observant of local declines (and national when they happen) and be open to addressing the issues causing the decline, no matter what they are...

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Nah, we'll post it soon.

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Haha, I was wondering why Auroni Gupta was playing without ever talking to me or, presumably, Shan. Yeah, we need two teammates.

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Terrapin will be happening again this year. Expect us to announce it relatively soon.

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magin wrote:Out of the 25/25 other arts in this tournament, we had 4/4 jazz. I don't think that's unreasonable.

I heartily endorse this and people in quizbowl should stop expecting "1 perfunctory question on Coltrane, Davis or Brubeck" to be the extent of jazz in a tournament.

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True story: I first-lined a tossup on Romance of the Three Kingdoms on a clue about the Dilu Horse because "Riding the Dilu Horse" is from the expansion Portal:Three Kingdoms. Not sure if I have ever been prouder in my quizbowl career. Sad fact: I immediately knew what card they were refe...

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37. Rutgers team members wake up the day before ACF Nationals and all unanimously agree they would rather go back to sleep. They send an email at 3 AM informing Matt Weiner that they will not be coming. 36. Hunter College - Matt Jackson walks into his first round game against Hunter and, seeing a pe...

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Do we choose or is it chosen for us, with regards to division?

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I like that in this alternate reality, I get to be on Maryland's A team.

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It's kind of a moot point this late in the season, but you can TOTALLY play quizbowl tournaments even if your school is more interested in [or wholly interested in] It's Academic. It's a little disheartening to see you guys have never been to a tourney.

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Some teams seem to go about this about as peacefully as possible-- Delaware has both a real quizbowl team and then a bunch of older hangers-on who seem to play only trash. Dividing the team like that isn't ideal, but may work better than a hostile takeover, and the trash dinosaurs don't really sap m...

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Fact 1: Maryland is not great at running tournaments. This is a widely accepted fact. Fact 2: We're also not horrible. You get in, you get out on time, you play your games. Things are kind of slapdash, but the tournament happens. Fact 3: We've had printed schedules at this tournament, the tournament...

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Dan Passner wrote: Also, he is now at graduate school at NYU. Why is such a student allowed to skate

Anybody can skate!

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