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I'm happy to announce that QBDB now sports a mostly-feature-complete reader of questions. You can click on "Read me a question," select your option, and go wild. There's an explanation of how it works in the FAQ (click "About QBDB" in the upper-left-hand part of the header). Enj...

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AKKOLADE wrote:New rankings! https://hsqbrank.com/2017/04/04/april-4 ... owl-teams/

What, out of curiosity, is the current stat adjustment for POMMSS, if I may?

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What ended up happening with this? Who won? Will stats be posted?

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To All Quizbowlers Whom May Be Concerned By The Content Of This Forum Post: My name is Devin James John Bartholomew Humphreys, and I am proud to announce that I will be tournament-directing Math Monstrosity, Conor Thompson's tossups-only math side event, at PACE NSC the night of June 10. Absolutely ...

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I am pleased to announce that I will be attending Michigan State University, and I firmly intend on playing quiz bowl.

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I, however, will be at NSC, have talked this over with Conor, and will run Math Monstrosity there. Yay! I personally will only be at NSC and would love to hear the whole tournament . . . Is there a signup for the NSC one? There is indeed. The signup is on the same spreadsheet as the HSNCT signup, b...

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scholarhillery wrote:I would LOVE to play this at NSC!!!!

Well then I have some good news for you.

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Finally, I understand that there is demand for this tournament to be run at PACE NSC. Unfortunately, I will not be at NSC. If anyone would be interested in running the tournament there, please PM or email me at conchuirgaeilge@gmail.com so I can get you the packets, and so that we can decide on com...

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The initial results submitted from the St. Mark's School of Texas Invitational (held on February 25) documented a statistically anomalous performance by the Windhaven Park E team given its members' previous tournament experience. After reviewing comments from coaches, moderators, and players involv...

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I am resurrecting this thread because I would like to know if there are any recommendations for songs to listen to before a match. I usually jam a bunch of dragon-slaying power metal like Manowar, DragonForce, etc, with some Eminem and Wiz Khalifa thrown in for good measure. I am open to any sugges...

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Effective February 1, 2017, NAQT has made a number of minor changes to its official rules for all levels of play. The changes principally clarify how and when the clock can be stopped, when score checks can take place, and the details of when a player may change his or her answer midstream. Complet...

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Let the record show that I was the one competing under the screen name of

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Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows that the worst Christmas song is the oxymoronically titled Best Christmas Song Ever ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFLaUL8NG9Y ). Watch at your own risk.

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Auroni wrote:
Auroni wrote:May have a 20/0 Ace Attorney packet ready for this.
Won't have time to write this, sadly.

! I was so hyped for this too! Any possibility of 10/0, or even 5/0? I would be thoroughly interested and am sad this is not coming to fruition!

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Auroni wrote:May have a 20/0 Ace Attorney packet ready for this.

I am officially excited for Festivus. I may write a "chain reaction" packet for this, where each answer derives from the last.

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Could we get a field update, please?

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This year, I read middle school packets and novice questions at our first few practices so that new players could build up confidence in their abilities. This. Pseudo-scientifically speaking, people have a "know" box and a "don't know" box. So if there's nothing in John Doe's &q...

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One other thing to look at that I only just noticed: the TTS tends to think apostrophes are grounds for separating a word. So it reads "nation's" like "nation s" instead of "nations". Maybe code the text-to-speech program so it ignores apostrophes? Despite some of these...

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I really like this program for three reasons: 1. It has four different voices, each of which has its own pros and cons, but it has that option instead of one Perfect Paul, for example. 2. It keeps a running answerline list on another tab. 3. For the first time in my time with the quizbowl community,...

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Hello all! Myself along with Sid Dogra, Harris Bunker, and Collin Parks made a website for Michigan in the state of Michigan in hopes to act as a resource for teams throughout the state. It can be found here: http://michiganquizbowl.org and if you would like to receive an email that Introduces the ...

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It might be worth your time to just see what comes in Science Olympiad, Chemistry Olympiad, etc. Then, you can form a list from those tests. I did Chemistry Olympiad my senior year of high school and felt the "cannon" of HS chemistry questions in Quiz Bowl aligned reasonably well with tha...

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I think the distinction is that private schools generally have some form of selective admissions policies which not all charter schools have. Private schools can say things like "you have to be Christian/male/over 300 pounds" to join, while charter schools do not. Charter schools are defi...

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NAQT has the University of Michigan Autumn Classic at 12/3, just FYI.

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Just an update: this set is being read at the MSU Fall Kickoff tournament on October 1, so I am hoping to get the set up on October 2.

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Since you'll all be paying me by Venmo for the tournament I know I have no real horse in this since this is CO, but whatever happened to "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"? Well, since you'd be paying before the tournament, you're not paying off a debt. Well the...

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Ike wrote:Since you'll all be paying me by Venmo for the tournament

I know I have no real horse in this since this is CO, but whatever happened to "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"?

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The annual DCC Novice Tournament will be Saturday November 5th, and the annual DCC Middle School Tournament will be Saturday December 10th. I added both events to the schedule. I don't have any other middle school events on there because I am not plugged into the MI middle school scene. Does anybod...

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I have full trust that Andrew Hart will continue NAQT's tradition of excellence as Chief Editor, and thank Seth Teitler for his service both to NAQT and the quizbowl community at large through that role.

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Echoing Mr. Reinstein's sentiments with regard to MSU being close enough to western Michigan, you might want to check WKAR's QuizBusters for active teams in Western Michigan. That TV tournament features 64 teams from the WKAR viewing area, and attracts teams mostly from the southwest portion of the ...

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I'd like to see some progress on an MQBA front. I know many of us had been talking about this in last year's date claim thread, but I really think establishing outreach programs would be beneficial.

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Make sure the information you want to practice with is bolded, otherwise it won't recognize it as information you want to practice with

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Ent wrote:I find it difficult to accept that a guy with 50 testimonials on his website would make a math mistake like this.

Especially when 20 or so of those testimonials are

ing duplicates...

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Unicolored Jay wrote:Don't worry guys, I'd very much like to help run a Skype mirror (seeing as I won't be attending any physical sites), so I'll do my best to work these things out by the playtesting stage.

YES PLEASE. I loved IL3 and think this would be awesome.

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Also some art pieces were displayed ahead of time in the powerpoint scrollbar on the left, so the question on identifying Klimt as the artist of The Kiss was a dead giveaway ahead of time if you had looked at the projector. They didn't even put the powerpoint in presentation mode?! PowerPoint being...

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Is this still being developed?

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Congratulations to Next Generation Charter School of Champaign, IL on winning the Chicago phase of the Junior national Academic Challenge, defeating #1 seed Heritage, 450-295. In the High school edition, Palatine (IL) made a valiant run at the Chicago phase title before falling to Daviess County (O...

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I got the tossup on gamma rays at ACF Regionals on "bursts" because I remembered it from this . I also got a Jesus tossup at HSNCT last year on "Quest for the Historical [this man]" thanks to Eric Mukherjee's hsqb username. Sort of the same thing has happened to me twice on the ...

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Yes, in standard quiz bowl, two teams of four players apiece compete. We have competed in three-team matches, but only once a year and for a Diocesan function far outside the mainstream of good quizbowl. Long story short, although there are some weird exceptions, two-team matches are the norm.

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Well, the IRC mirror happened. Here are individual results from that: 5th Place: Naveed Chowdhury (10 points) 4th Place: Vasa Clarke (70 points) 3rd Place: Chris Manners (195 points) 2nd Place: Mike Cheyne (495 points) 1st Place (Champion): Rob Carson (540 points) Thanks to all who showed up and par...

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Why was there a Wasps tossup. My friend buzzed in and said bee I feel he not only got cheated by a poor answerline but I mean bee and wasp... Also could we see the agriculture question? I was able to 10 that question after hearing the word "ichneumon", as ichneumons are by definition wasp...

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I would be curious to hear whether this style (including in non-literature categories) is a welcome and distinguishing feature of the NSC, or whether at least some such questions can be more frustrating and bewildering than their uniqueness is worth. I liked that style of question, although I may b...

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Will this set be revived for the upcoming season?

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The Whistler's Mother tossup should have clarified that Portrait of the Artist's Mother was an acceptable answer at some point and that really anything to suggest it was a painting of Whistler's mother was fine. I had a team say "Portrait of James Whistler's Mother." What round was this? ...

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I'd be interested in a Skype NASAT mirror

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This will be posted in the fall. MSU has offered to help me host a mirror of this set at a fall tournament, so after that mirror is hosted, I'll clear the set and post it to the forum. EDIT #1: Additionally, a mirror will be held on the IRC at some point, determined by when the most people can play ...

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My apologies to the Illinois team and to Sally Hemings (TJ) for being unable to play. However, of those teams that did play, here are the rankings: 4th place goes to Team Pennsylvania. 3rd place goes to Solon, a/k/a Rohin > John at Lit. 2nd place goes to our free agent team, the Island of Misfit Toy...

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Apologies for double-posting, but I wanted to clarify a few things. 1. With regard to time, we don't anticipate this side event running very long at all; if NSC uses the same schedule as last year, then Tiebreaker B will end at 6:30, Mass will start at about 6:45, Frs. Gregory and Augustine get it d...

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I can moderate this at NSC.

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10 minutes following the conclusion of competition on Saturday, according to Cistercian.

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Attention interested quiz bowlers: I am proud to announce that the Sacred Heart Academy quiz bowl team will be organizing a side event at NSC: A Bit of Lit! Organization [/u] Organized by yours truly, Devin Humphreys, captain of SHA Quiz Bowl, and Bit of Lit Tournament Director, this all-literature ...

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