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Does anyone have a list of what QB blogs exist currently? This might just be a 1-to-1 mapping of regions to their websites, but it would be cool to know what sites are currently maintained. This might even include FB group pages. (If I do get a list, I'll probably sticky it inside of QuizDB somewher...

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We're still stuck at nine teams, and if we remain stuck, then we have no choice but to play with some ugly bye systems. If you're a free agent, please form a team sooner rather than later.

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nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:32 pm Is there an approximate start time planned for Sunday side events?

Should be a little after 9. I'll send an email with more details later today or tomorrow.

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This is two weeks away, and we have a very conspicuous empty team slot, and 8 free agents (albeit many "probably" FAs). Please take that team slot now if you can! I have decided it will be *very* unlikely that I'll increase the field cap further, so... Meanwhile, I'll probably be sending o...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:13 pm Hi, would love to mirror this event and have some questions about it. I've emailed but haven't received a response yet. Could someone let me know what the best contact info would be to get those questions answered? Thanks!

This got handled, I just misplaced the original reply! Thanks for the set!

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Hi, would love to mirror this event and have some questions about it. I've emailed but haven't received a response yet. Could someone let me know what the best contact info would be to get those questions answered? Thanks!

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The team of me, Anson, and Steven are no longer able to go, so I've removed our names from the spreadsheet. If this applies to your side event participation, just please remember to remove yourself from that as well. In response to this drop, I have moved a team off the waitlist and into the field....

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Is there an email address I can contact for further questions about the set / eventually getting packets when they're ready? Feel free to PM me. (I'd much prefer email over forum communication.)

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Thanks! I've modified your entry on the spreadsheet.

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Also--it looks like buzzers have charged back into the fray as another cap on field size. We're probably going to have to lock the field at 12 until I can get at least another buzzer, but I'd prefer two.

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Also, Dogeville West & East, please add your contact emails, there is no reason to not have done so yet. I'll start emailing teams prelim. info this week, and if I don't have your emails by then, I'll move you out of the field. (Consider this a warning to a warning.)

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I've increased the field size to 12. I would really like to avoid field sizes of 13, as it is particular ugly, and 14 and 15 are not great either. If you are a free agent, or in an undersized team not yet in the field, I would encourage you to either recruit your friends so that we can get new teams...

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That's actually one of my reasons for putting it last--if we play it first, I have to guess to see whether we should play fewer packets or not (at the risk of severely delaying the other events). If we play it last, there's always the option to play the full 12 packets. (And, yes, there is a chance ...

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https://www.quizdb.org/reader

This isn't admitting defeat, it's just...acknowledging setbacks. Thanks to Ashwin for his great website, and I hope people keep using the QuizDB API to make these great 3rd-party clients.

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I have increased the field size to 10 teams, and edited the sheet accordingly. I expect the field size to increase further. However, please note that, after some consideration, I am probably going to hard cap the field size at 16 entirely, because of concerns I have about managing anything larger th...

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Anyone traveling from the Boston area, I plan on driving to NYC that Friday night. Feel free to DM me if you would like to carpool or share a hotel, it would be great if we could lower everyone’s costs. You are free to make whatever calculated decisions you'd like--and I'm really only repeating thi...

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I'm interested in staffing* (seeing that staff constraints seem to be the main impediment to increasing field size), however, I need to know that I will not be out of pocket at the end of the weekend after my travel and food expenses. In other words, I need a concrete number, not a vague promise of...

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Aaron's Rod wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 10:53 pm Yikes.

(Any of you who have the means should just come to Illinois. If you can find your way to Chicago, you can probably get a ride. And it's not hard for them to get rooms.)

I heartily endorse this!

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I'd like to suggest expanding the field to 9 teams and at worst committing to run a 9 team round robin. That will, for now, solve the demand issue while also guaranteeing enough staffers to run the event. If more staffers sign up, then we can readjust. If not, we've at least got 50% more people pla...

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If you are a full team and contact me first, and I can successfully contact/commit your associated staffer, you will be taken off the waitlist first when full team spots open up. If you are a free agent, you will get priority when I start forcing people to join existing teams. This is actually a goo...

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Perhaps this is because I'm not super interested in a ton of the side events, but is there a reason side events are prioritized over a full main event? (I don't remember the poll, so maybe it was a question on the poll?). I'd personally prefer not to abbreviate the main event, but obviously whateve...

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Demand for the main event seems like it's far outstripping the six teams. The current method of allocating spots based on who happened to be online and saw this thread first seems incredibly unfair to me, given how drawn out this scheduling process has been. I would be very annoyed if I don't get t...

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I have posted the official tournament logistics thread here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22827

Please post in there moving forward.

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This is a separate post to increase visibility of the signup sheet, which, again, is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 2109749004

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Hi Friends, Please find full details for the NYC Summer Open below. I will continue to update this thread, then move to email as the tournament approaches. DISCLAIMER You may notice the big "GUERILLA" in the title now. This is to emphasize that a lot of this tournament is ad hoc, more than...

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As an editor on this year's NASAT, I'm glad we decided on OxO. I just hope OxO is more properly Americanized unlike CamO from last year, which included rather odd questions like the death of Edward II and some obscure British geography questions. Of course, some oddball questions in a set is basica...

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Please give me some time to formally write up a new post with tournament details, but just so you'll pay attention to the important stuff in that, I can say that, yes, the people have spoken, and we'll run Oxford Open as the main event. (I hope anyone who has already played that set isn't too disapp...

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I agree with Will's point regarding not wanting to play a truncated set. Just in case it's an important point, hopefully "truncated" here refers to potentially playing 20/24 given questions from the CamO packets. Whether we play NASAT, OxO, or CamO, we will definitely not play all the pac...

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I'll stan for my brother (James Kuang) and point out this absurd statline of 21/7/5, and perhaps more impressively, getting this statline at a college tournament (one that was 6 months ago, no less). I'll let his performance in the finals at NSC speak for itself on how good he is at lit (Cervantes a...

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As a player, I'm personally agnostic between NASAT and Oxford Open Just to re-tread this point--please change your vote if you feel swayed by this conversation, and have a similar opinion! Again, I'm literally just going off votes right now. (In the future I'll have ranked choice voting, I guess :e...

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I also tried to work more "world" content into the fine arts than in previous sets. Off the top of your head, do you remember (and can you post the content of) which questions these might have been? I remember the (Middle Eastern) rugs tossup, which I enjoyed, wondering if there were othe...

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I'm not sure if there's a separate difficulty discussion, but I was talking to some people about perceived difficulty in the set, so I decided to do some quick analysis: PPB: Quartile data: 13.2, 15.2, 18.2 St Dev: 3.6 Powers: Quartile data: 8, 12, 18.2 St Dev: 9.9 PPG: Quartile data: 211.4, 291.4, ...

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How close was the public vote on the main event set? Because I have a feeling that people voted pro-NASAT and anti-NASAT, with anti-NASAT people splitting the vote between Cambridge Open and Oxford Open. I did consider this, but NASAT won even when the votes for those sets were combined (albeit, by...

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ThisIsMyUsername wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:01 pm I'm not monitoring the Visual Arts, but the Auditory Arts is 1/3 done, and the writing pace has really picked up now that people are finishing (or have finished) their finals. The set will be done in time for Illinois Side Event Weekend on July 20th.

Thanks! That's very reassuring.

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Hi all--just wanted to update that I should be able to definitely announce by end of week whether we will have rooms. It will most likely be at Columbia, and there will most likely be some element of caveat emptor, where we might arbitrarily lose the rooms during the event for no good reason, though...

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Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 3:53 pm How is production coming along? Is this set still on pace to be ready for this summer?

Can the writers/editors provide any more details about the progress of this set?

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Did the logistics email ever get sent?

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Urech hydantoin synthesis wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 2:55 pm A caveat is that the building is officially closed on Sunday.

Well that's definitely not good, unless people want to play no side events after all :(

I'll talk with Columbia people and Ben privately about this--I'm hoping I'll have good news for the people in this thread within a week.

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Hi everyone. I’ll be reading GOLBEZ in the Discord next Wednesday night, June 12, at 9pm Eastern. After that, I’ll be posting the set to the archives. Err--there are still side events that would potentially like this to run (i.e. NYC Open, if it does happen). Sorry for not pinging you, but I didn't...

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I know a date can't really be nailed down until rooms, events, etc are decided, but at this point is there an estimate of when a firm date—if one is going to materialize at all—might be available? I'm looking at going out to the UIUC weekend, and it'd be nice to know if I should hold off because th...

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Leaving this up for a few more days to give people time to figure out if they're going to play some of these events at NSC instead (note: you can edit your votes after the fact!), and also because we're still having trouble finding a location anyways.

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The side-event poll is up: https://forms.gle/7nQf2f2yVL94GWhy8

Please vote within the next week or so, at which point I'll close the form.

There are many, many, MANY options, so please think carefully about which events you will ACTUALLY PLAY.

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How many packets did this end up being?

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Sorry, thought I posted this--we can't confirm a date because of trouble getting rooms, but we're (read: NYU) currently solely focused on getting rooms the last weekend of July (27/28). On this note, if you think you'd be an NYC-based institution that could be a good backup for hosting, please let ...

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Sorry, thought I posted this--we can't confirm a date because of trouble getting rooms, but we're (read: NYU) currently solely focused on getting rooms the last weekend of July (27/28).

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In an effort to make this easier for anyone who has to go through the hell of planning the many, many side events for this summer, I've compiled this single list of every possible event I could find that was announced: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MNTjIslRMPWRJZvIIPnREvK0jv1VSf7AoFFL1GSSR...

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Uploaded the following packets in prep for nats: 2018 HFT XIII 2018 EFT 2019 ACF Regionals 2019 Terrapin Apologies for the lack of packet uploading recently. Part of that is because I've been busy, but the other is that there just haven't been many DOCX packets being uploaded recently. (If you can a...

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Sorry, no movement--I'll talk to the relevant people again and see if they were able to get more logistics details!

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One thing I suspect is that many quizbowlers do have interesting stories relating to NAQT that they would like to share, but either feel that they are not worthwhile stories, not interesting stories, not public relations safe, don't want to come off as self-aggrandizing, etc.; but at the same time, ...

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