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Are there any college tournaments planned for this May (other than the UW mirror of DII ICT)?

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Papa's in the House wrote:If the EPCOTT event is paired with this, I'll toss my hat in the ring as a free agent.

Want to play this with me?

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Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:Ryan has never not done an excellent job of editing CO.

this.

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I tested with chrome, and I'm not having trouble with facebook connectivity. Some issue other than the browser and adblock must be causing the trouble. I'm not having trouble either - so whatever it was, either it disappeared, or thanks are due to Gerald and Sharad for finding and fixing it. So, th...

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fett0001 wrote:
cornfused wrote:On Chrome, none of the FB functions (sign-in or seeing other people's activity) have worked for about a week now.
Not having this problem in Iron, so it might be a Google Bloatware issue, or something specific to you.

Maybe the former. I'm having the problem on two different computers.

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On Chrome, none of the FB functions (sign-in or seeing other people's activity) have worked for about a week now.

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Qmwne235 wrote:
DrCongo wrote:I'm going to MSU next year and I probably won't play quiz bowl
Oh, but you will!

Quizbowl will be actually fun in college!

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marnold wrote:Also, I like how every list with numbers has put us at #14.

Personally, I'm just disappointed that Columbia didn't finish fourteenth.

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College Park Spyders wrote:NSC 2011 podcasts

Where could I find these?

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Is there a chance that Category=Fine Arts isn't available?

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sharadmv wrote:Firefox should be fine.haven't tested opera though

Firefox was mostly non-functional (at work) and Chrome (on my laptop) is AOK.

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At Peoria (Civic Center)
STATE
Rockford (Auburn) 415 F
Aurora (Illinois Math and Science Academy) 430

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Firefox?

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And still, everyone, don't do this.

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Coach G wrote:Bloomington (Christina, the young man who was so strong in social studies - I'm blanking on his name right now, but I think either his first or last name starts with F, +), and Auburn (Siva, John, Michael +).

Hunter Fast. How could you possibly blank on "Hunter Fast"?

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King of Carrot Flowers wrote:Auburn won their sectional, just for reference.

Thanks - I figured that was likely, but hey, from what I hear, Kaneland is quite good.

P.S. Congrats on avenging your seeding!

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Heck, it's still down for me.

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Pools for State:

AA: [Champaign Centennial, Macomb, Buffalo Grove, Carbondale], [IMSA, Providence Catholic, New Trier, Auburn]
A: [Chicago Christian, Carterville, Litchfield, Warrensburg-Latham], [Peoria Christian, Cumberland, Athens, Keith Country Day]

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My team didn't get magnetic quantum number or spin-orbit coupling and I don't know how much of that was our fault and how much of that was suboptimal prompts. -Seth FWIW, Sorice thought that that bonus was factually incorrect. I don't have the physics knowledge of Sorice or the set, so I can't make...

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jonah wrote:This problem occasionally cropped up in the fine arts category too (the theory questions)

For the record: the fine arts was me except for the theory/jazz/music theater.

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Jerry may well be right, but his position is poorly argued. I'm not going to claim that statistics are the final arbiter of what is good and true in quizbowl, but I think they're a decent first approximation, and Junipero Serra appears on the Stanford packet archive barely more than Mircea Eliade. ...

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Might not be that pretty once all of the games are entered, but yeah.

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I think I went to a Pocketful of Bacon concert once, back in the day.

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Is that little green notch up top TJ 2005?

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Amazing stat line for Ben Chametzky vs. Loyola B: 14-4-2 for 240 points. Zowser! Yeah, don't mind the crazy stats that these players were putting up. Nothing to see here, move along now folks. Ben had his 14/4/2, Lloyd had four ten-power games (four total negs in those games) and no games with unde...

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Roy, Seth, and Lahiri.

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I got through HS ancient history Qs with the knowledge from the guidebook to the original AoE.

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I successfully identified Fiddler on the Roof from a song or namethat I heard from the episode (Jews and Chinese Food) of Gilmore Girls where Lorelai and Luke are working on the set of the Stars Hollow Elementary production of Fiddler and Kirk is starring as Tevye. I award you ten points and my com...

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Papa's in the House wrote:http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sharadmv/

...doesn't work, that.

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Wow, Berkeley's third-best DI team finished twelfth AND they won DII? I knew Berkeley used to be really good, but I didn't realize it was THAT dominant.

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touchpack wrote:and raise you an American Dad

aaand now I'm going to be humming that for the rest of the day.

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I still get a good 20% of my literature buzzes from Wishbone.

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Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.

All of my Isambard Kingdom Brunel knowledge comes from Hark! A Vagrant.

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nadph wrote:The server's still timing out when I try to access http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sharadmv/, even after clearing my cache. Any word as to why this might be? Sorry about the confusion.

Still down here, too.

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title says it all

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Did this set ever get posted?

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I don't see the problem with duplicate answer lines unless they repeat clues. I don't know about time (although it seems like they didn't repeat), but Alexander the Great didn't repeat clues. Most people generally rule out answer lines that have already come up, though, don't they? At least in the ...

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helios wrote:Final stats for the morning rounds here.

Cool, a perfect split in both brackets.

EDIT: Also cool: Purdue sending four teams to this.

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Pairings are back up.

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mr_basque wrote:I can't find the regional pairings. I followed the link but it is blank am I missing something?

It was working earlier today but is definitely down. Whoops.

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I realize that this is probably a joke they get often, but did anyone else do a double-take because IMSA's opening their regional against a sandwich?

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theMoMA wrote:Lest anyone forget: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=7285

dseal wrote:Michael Arnold = Sheryl Swoopes. No explanation needed.

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Cheynem wrote:Both Dirk and Nash have been eliminated by a Duncan team three times in the playoffs.

But neither of them started out on the same team as Duncan.

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grapesmoker wrote:Remember this one golden rule: in all quizbowl/basketball analogies, Seth Teitler is Tim Duncan.

Which makes you...

EDIT: I am stumped.

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This may be a really stupid question but how do you enter a answer? Like, I hit buzz and I type in my answer, but how do I submit it? You press the enter key. Only works if you're logged in, and no one can log in right now. Well, I just type my UN/PW in the boxes, hit enter, and it still works desp...

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Stupid question, Fred, but was the lead-in for Gettysburg inspired by Who Wants to be a Millionaire? I don't even think that lead-in was mine, to be honest. I know what you're referencing, Bradley, but the Edward Everett thing is a common trivia chestnut. Besides that $1,000,000 question, it's show...

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The only sports analogy I like is this one: Like any sport, quizbowl is an activity in which you get better at it through practice. Like, for instance, a lot of times people get discouraged when they come to one practice and can't answer anything in the first ten minutes or whatever. Whereas if you...

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What is it like to be a Batman? wrote:Obviously the solution is to have an open bar at tournaments.

Paging Brendan Byrne, paging... what was it, Iowa State?

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Tommy Tutone 2 wrote:
antiamoeba wrote:This may be a really stupid question but how do you enter a answer? Like, I hit buzz and I type in my answer, but how do I submit it?

User was reminded to add a signature. -Mgmt
You press the enter key.

Only works if you're logged in, and no one can log in right now.

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And, again like baseball, it's about as entertaining to watch on tv as being hit in the face with a mallet. The wording of this made me briefly picture someone on TV being hit with a mallet, which would be very entertaining. Wipeout 's beating 30 Rock and Vampire Diaries in the ratings ...

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