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9A/9B: Hall and Oates, "Maneater" vs. Depeche Mode, "Personal Jesus" 10A/10B: Phil Collins, "In The Air Tonight" vs. Ozzy Osbourne, "Crazy Train" 11A/11B: REO Speedwagon, "Keep On Lovin' You" vs. Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust" 12A/12B:...

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Reminder that the deadline for this is in two weeks!

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I liked the in-game experience of Zoom + buzzer app more than Discord, although I agree with Mike that not having a good way of communicating rapidly with everyone detracted from the experience. A Zoom tournament utilizing a Discord server for communication might be the best way to go.

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19. The Head That Talks Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” Talking Heads, “Burning Down the House” 20. Pick ‘em: U2 (“With or Without You” is untouchable) U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" U2, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)” 21. Calling The Police ...

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John said everything I would've, except I haven't been to Andrić's house.

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10. Wham!? Wham!, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” Wham!, “Careless Whisper” No "Last Christmas"? Probably for the best. The "Careless Whisper" hook is far better than anything in "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", and would be even if this video had never been created: https...

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PLAY-INS, SLATE ONE PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR VOTES BY MIDNIGHT PST 11/8 1. Clash of the Clash The Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM The Clash, “Rock the Casbah”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ "Should I Stay or Should I Go" doesn't h...

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Not to complicate things too much (although listening to more of this album is surely not a bad thing!) but if you're going to pick a 7-minute Eric B. and Rakim song it should be "My Melody."

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The R.E.M. choice would ideally be "Radio Free Europe" or "The One I Love".

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The Acclaimed Music list is a good one. Some other songs to consider:

"Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode
"Celebrated Summer" by Hüsker Dü
"I Will Dare" by the Replacements
"A New England" by Billy Bragg

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I am not good enough to comment on the set as a whole, but I will say that I was overall a big fan of how the increased Math/CS/Applied Science/Data Science distro was handled. The TUs on Webscraping and Solving Differential Equations as well as the bonuses on supervised ML methods and the Pandas l...

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We are looking for at least one host in the following regions: Northeast (NY, CT, VT, NH, RI, MA, ME) Mid-Atlantic (NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, VA) South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY, LA, TX) Great Lakes (MI, OH, IN) Midwest (IL, WI) Great Plains and Rockies (MN, IA, MO, OK, TX, CO, UT, MT, ID, AZ) West...

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I am pleased to announce that the Spring Novice set is accepting applications for writers. I am particularly looking for applications for new and less-experienced writers who would like more opportunities to write questions and receive feedback. Application The application asks for a brief summary o...

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I am pleased to announce Spring Novice, a tournament designed to introduce new players to college quizbowl. I will be head editing, with assistance from Katherine Lei (MIT), Alex Damisch (formerly of Lawrence and DePaul), and Chris Chiego (formerly of UGA, UCSD, and Penn). The tournament will be wri...

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ACF has updated the gameplay rules to specify that TDs can choose a different phrase (such as "directed" or "final") that teams can prepend to their answer to direct it.

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Not speaking officially for ACF here, but my personal thought is that the only way to have certainty about when a buzz occurred is to mark it when the moderator stops reading. The rule should be in Section D instead of Section DX then. To be clear, ACF hasn't decided on the rule here yet; that's ju...

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Most of these are good additions to the rules, but there are a couple that seem unnecessarily rigid to me. Specifically, these two: Added Section DX.2.B: "Whether or not a player buzzed before, at, or within less than a syllable after the power mark is a matter of moderator judgment, and is no...

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How did people like the 20/15/10/-5 point structure? Is this something you'd like to see in future singles tournaments? I liked this structure a lot -- it incentivized not tuning out after a neg and also rewarded riskier early buzzes. My team didn't use the increased latitude for communication duri...

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I assume this tournament is being delayed until in-person mirrors can be held? Playing a speedcheck tournament online sounds unfun.

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1 21st century pop music 1 1950-2000 pop music 1 rap, R&B, hip hop 1 post-1960 rock 1 blues, soul, folk, country, pre-1960 rock 5 misc / mixed / other popular music When your distribution is 50% "whatever I want to write", I think there's generally a reasonable expectation that that d...

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For me at least, generating pronunciation guides seems to be GPT3's killer app for quizbowl. I am *the worst* at writing these guides. GPT3 seems to do a pretty good job on these. It's not necessarily perfect (that first example invents syllables that don't exist) but I'm pretty sure it outperforms...

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Should be fixed now, I got my index pages mixed up.

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Ryan Rosenberg has volunteered to host it somewhere on the ACF website. More details from him to follow. The 1999 ACF archive can be found here. The MAQT archive from a similar time can be found here. Dave also included the likely-not-seen-in-20-years 1995 ACF Nationals program, which is up here. H...

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There are a couple of general tracks to studying for hard college and open tournaments. Because I'm a data scientist, I'll call them supervised learning and unsupervised learning . These don't actually correspond to the machine learning categories but they're a cute way to divide it up. Supervised l...

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Finally, as an older member of the community with a wide variety of trainings and experiences, I'll offer myself as a resource for younger male members of this community who are having issues navigating interpersonal relationships or recognizing uncomfortable situations. My DMs are open, as is my e...

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A standard code of conduct like Heather proposes is a good first step towards developing better norms of behavior in the community. Not speaking officially for PACE or ACF here, but I certainly imagine that if the community developed a code of conduct PACE and ACF would integrate it into their rules...

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Not related to this specific incident, but I think that PACE, NAQT, and ACF should do more outreach about the misconduct form. I think that all NAQT tournaments, ACF tournaments, and PACE qualifiers (as well as pretty much every other tournament) should require the hosts to inform all players and c...

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Stairway to Heaven vs. Born to Run

I'd vote for When The Levee Breaks over Born to Run, but then again I'd vote for Thunder Road or Jungleland or maybe Backstreets over everything on Led Zeppelin IV.

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Stairway to Heaven vs. Wish You Were Here
Superstition vs. Born to Run

Look, if you didn't want Springsteen to win, you shouldn't have knocked out Tangled Up in Blue.

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Wish You Were Here vs. Ohio
Let It Be vs. Stairway to Heaven
Born to Run vs. Long Train Runnin’
Superstition vs. What’s Going On

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Are submissions still due next Sunday?

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Psycho Killer vs. Ohio
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Wish You Were Here
Stairway to Heaven vs. The Chain
Let It Be vs. American Girl

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The Stately Rhododendron wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:07 am the Limey swill known as Let it Be.

Hey, if the Beatles are so British, why isn't it "Whilst My Guitar Gently Weeps"?

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Beast of Burden vs. Me and Bobby McGee
What’s Going On vs. Zombie
Midnight Train to Georgia vs. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Superstition vs. Jolene

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Long Train Runnin’ vs. Maggie May -- the 7th and 8th best songs here Proud Mary vs. It’s Too Late -- Tapestry is a great album, but It's Too Late doesn't stand out much. It also doesn't help that I think of the Derek and the Dominoes song first. In contrast, the Ike and Tina version of Proud Mary s...

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The Chain vs. War Pigs
Stairway to Heaven vs. Free Bird
No Woman, No Cry vs. American Girl
Let It Be vs. Just What I Needed

voting chalk here, but "Let It Be" is pretty weak

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Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Psycho Killer
Lola vs. Ohio
London Calling vs. Wish You Were Here
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Only the Good Die Young

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The Gambler vs. Maggie May Turn the Page vs. Long Train Runnin’ Let’s Stay Together vs. It’s Too Late Proud Mary vs. I’ve Seen All Good People Born to Run vs. Surrender Life on Mars? vs. Ramblin’ Man Tangled Up in Blue vs. Mississippi Queen Layla vs. Brass in Pocket Not a rough matchup in the bunch,...

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Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Riders on the Storm -- it's the better song here, but maybe the 6th or 7th best in this group of 8 Psycho Killer vs. Gloria -- two great songs that build to wonderful insanity, a shame one of them has to go out so soon. Voting for "Gloria" because of the story that i...

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Black Magic Woman vs. Pink Moon -- Not that Black Magic Woman's a bad song, I expect it to go through and would vote for it against more than a few other songs here. But Pink Moon is a perfect incantation of a particular feeling of loneliness. Me and Bobby McGee vs. Wild World -- "Wild World&qu...

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Born to Run vs. Cars
I Will Survive vs. Surrender
Life on Mars? vs. American Woman
Fire and Rain vs. Ramblin’ Man
Tangled up in Blue vs. We Are Family
Boys Don’t Cry vs. Mississippi Queen
Layla vs. Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City
Rock and Roll vs. Brass in Pocket

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What's the estimated timeline for this set? Some teams are looking for packets for a season-ending event.

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Dancing Queen vs. Smoke on the Water War Pigs vs. California Uber Alles Runnin’ with the Devil vs. Search and Destroy The Chain vs. Ballroom Blitz September vs. Is She Really Going Out with Him? Free Bird vs. Walk on the Wild Side American Pie vs. Marquee Moon Stairway to Heaven vs. Smiling Faces S...

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There's been a lot of discussion in the cheating warning thread about how people should think about punishment for Eric Mukherjee's cheating, and I wanted to start a separate thread to discuss more generally how the community should deal with cheating in online tournaments. To my mind, there are two...

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Stay with Me vs. Rapper's Delight -- the former is a nice rousing rock song, but the latter makes it through on historical import alone (and check the bass line!) O-o-h Child vs. $1000 Wedding -- "O-o-h Child" is a nice bit of sweet soul; "$1000 Wedding" is a little slow but has ...

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Lotta songs here from artists with better work (some of which was in other decades, to be fair). Cruel to Be Kind vs. The City of New Orleans Ramblin' Man vs. Radar Love -- hadn't heard "Radar Love" before and was pleasantly surprised. It wouldn't beat "Blue Sky", but it's a good...

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Goodbye Stranger vs. Cold as Ice Move On Up vs. The Man with the Child in His Eyes I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home) vs. America The Beautiful (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night vs. More Than a Feeling Smoke on the Water vs. Delta Dawn Pink Moon vs. Garden Party -- by far the best song in thi...

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Contra Vasa, I don't think the statistical evidence presented in the thread is exonerating. Chris had an extremely good performance at Terrapin Open Online, even for his normally high level of performance. Other players have had performances of similar outlierness, but those players have had skill l...

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Surrender vs. Right Place Wrong Time Short People vs. Closer to the Heart La Grange vs. All Right Now Only the Good Die Young vs. Hello Darlin’ Mississippi Queen vs. Star Spangled Banner I’ll Be Around vs. Up Against the Wall Search and Destroy vs. Mr. Big Stuff American Girl vs. Whole Wide World

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2020 ACF Nationals has been rescheduled to August 8-9 at Northwestern University. The feasibility of this rescheduled date is still tentative due to the ongoing pandemic, and teams and staff have been instructed to not make concrete plans for attending ACF Nationals on this weekend until the prospec...

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