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Are you really that okay with easy geography-based (or hell, language-based) fraud? This seems like a really, really low standard of knowledge in order to get power at a regular difficulty tournament. Egregiously misplaced clues like this remove a lot of the advantages that people who've studied Ta...

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The KMT question said a Chinese word in the second clue, which seems like a bad idea because it radically condenses the answerspace. According to Matt Jackson and Jacob Reed, the particular Chinese word was an important place in Taiwan, which makes this even more ill-conceived. I am totally fine if...

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kroeajueluo wrote:T
3. No World History Tossup + Peru bonus based on dictatorship stuff

Thutmose III isn't world history? I mean, I guess he's ancient, but he's also from Egypt, so....

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To clarify, games will start at 9, which means teams should be in Jimenez by 8:45 at the latest.

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Apparently part of the fun of quizbowl is having to pay attention on questions for the right pronoun, so to answer your question, no. Otherwise giving the answer as "Shakespeare" on a hard Hamlet answer line tossup shows "real knowledge". Some questions are intentionally written...

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Apologies, but the next round of playtesting will be postponed to Wednesday.

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I'll be playtesting the first seven packets of the history in SUBMIT tomorrow (1/20) at 9 PM EST in #SUBMITQB. The rest will be played on Tuesday at 9 EST.

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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi wrote:Is there a list of packets you guys have received anywhere?

Brian should be putting up a proper list ASAP, but here's what we have:

Dartmouth A
Dartmouth B
Haverford
Illinois B
Penn B
Penn C
Washington
Wellesley
WUSTL

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Was there ever a decision made on this?

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Lit:
American/British: Tanay
Euro/World: Chris

History:
American: Ankit
Euro/World: Puma

Science: Brian

Fine Arts:
Painting/Other Art: Tanay
Music: Ophir

RMP:
R/M: Ankit
P: Arun

SS: Ankit
Geo/CE: Tanay
Trash: Isaac Bertrand Hirsch

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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 impossib...

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gamegeek2 wrote:Who's editing the individual subjects?

Science: Brian
Lit: Tanay/Manners
History: Ankit/Me
RMP: Ankit/Arun
Fine Arts: Tanay/
SS: Ankit
Trash: Isaac

If you want it broken down by specific category I can tell you that too.

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Ras superfamily wrote:Will this set be powermarked? Is there any update on optional packet deadlines?

Yes to the first question; e-mail Brian about the second.

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Masked Canadian History Bandit wrote:Will there be discounts for teams submitting packets when they don't need to?

I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, but email Brian at bmcpeak (at) terpmail (dot) umd (dot) edu and you'll get a definitive answer.

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Could you post the tossup on Northern Ireland?

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Current Field: Bullis School Centennial (3) Eleanor Roosevelt Loudoun County Manheim Township Montgomery Blair (2) Oakland Mills Phoenixville Quince Orchard (1) Thomas Jefferson (2) Walter Johnson (2) Total Field: 16 Buzzers: Centennial (2) Loudon County (1) Manheim Township (2) Montgomery Blair (2)...

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Hey, guys! If UD doesn't get word by Friday, then they have generously allowed us (the University of Maryland) to take over the date. If it happens, we will also use IS-128, pending approval by NAQT. If our tournament happens, we are going to have an initial cap of 16 teams, so e-mail me if you woul...

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Would anyone coming be interested in a mirror of TAMIL following this?

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Andrew Fiest and Dan Goff are great. Another great one is the guy who read the 3rd place game between us and Yale at ICT, but I don't remember his name.

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If you guys need staff I can be there by about 1:30.

Gonzagapuma1 · Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012 Yes.

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My Open Ballot: 1. Matt Bollinger 2. Eric Mukherjee 3. Chris Ray 4. Ike Jose 5. Matt Jackson 6. Andrew Hart 7. John Lawrence 8. Auroni Gupta 9. Dallas Simons 10. Will Nediger 11. Kurtis Droge 12. Evan Adams 13. Guy Tabacknick 14. Will Butler 15. Ted Gioia 16. Marshall Steinbaum 17. Trevor Davis 18. ...

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Can people please stop doing sketchy shit at quizbowl nationals? Thanks in advance if this stops!

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First, I'd like to say that this tournament was awesome and I'll be happily be playing it again next year. There were a ton of great and interesting tossups and I had a great time playing it. However, I did notice that there seemed to be a paucity of questions in the 1200-1800 AD range for Euro hist...

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If there is any interest in this let me know and I can try to set up some practice/tryouts.

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Penn Bowl Trash is now on Twitter!
- www.twitter.com/PennBowlTrash

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The Laughing Cavalier wrote:Has the location of this tournament been finalized? And where do you suggest we park?

Just sent an e-mail that should address those questions. Also, Penn and Penn St., if you guys could give me your e-mails so I could forward it to you that would be awesome.

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If everyone could firm up the number of teams they're bringing within the next day or so, that would be great. Also, I don't have Penn State or Penn's e-mail addresses, so if someone from those teams could e-mail me that would be great.

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The Maryland Academic Quiz Team will be hosting a mirror of the second Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament on October 1st, 2011 at the University of Maryland. The tournament is designed as an introduction to collegiate pyramidal quizbowl; as such, there are some eligibility restrictions to ens...

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I'm looking for a team for this. Just PM me or email me at [email protected]

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For anyone wondering, a team of Chris Ray and Ben and Sid from Penn swept for the field, with a team of myself, Mehdi and Ozzie coming in second. I assume stats will be up eventually?

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Btw, I am playing ICT solo now.

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Aaron Carney wrote:Lots of stuff.

Get over yourself.

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For those of you who think the point of Quiz Bowl is to win seriously need to get a psychological evaluation. I'm serious, the point of Quiz Bowl is to enjoy yourself while forming a social network with other intelligent people. If you are being paid based on how much you win, the purpose is to win...

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Montgomery College will be actually be coming as a team.

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I'll be there. Potentially looking for teammate(s).

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Obviously, we will be there. IO on Sunday sounds good.

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I think we (Daniel and I) are gonna come and staff this.

Gonzagapuma1 · Re: IO Mirror at Penn (3/5/11) MC would attend on this date or a later date.

MC would attend on this date or a later date.

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Thanks.

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Did someone lose the stats disk or are they going to be posted eventually?

Gonzagapuma1 · Re: Penn Bowl 2011 (February 12, 2011) Sweet. Thanks.

Sweet. Thanks.

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No idea if you got my e-mail or not, but we, Montgomery College, would like to sign up a team.

Gonzagapuma1 · Re: Penn Bowl 2011 (February 12, 2011) So, we wouldn't have to submit either?

So, we wouldn't have to submit either?

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TheHumanPaperweight wrote:Did my troll answer(s) disqualify me from this event, or did I end up at zero or a negative number and thus get dropped to spare my precious feelings?

I think you ended up with 5 or 10 points.

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MoCo would also most likely be there.

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I like the idea of a draft, but I also think it would be cool to play as Loyola for the first time, so I'm kind of leaning that I would prefer not to have one.

Gonzagapuma1 · Re: Minnesota Open Mirror (10/17/09) at Maryland I might be able to make this.

I might be able to make this.

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hwhite wrote:especially since Dan Puma hasn't been as active as it once was (or so secondhand reports say).

You have some bad secondhand sources, bro.

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Good news for you Matt, my boy Alex Costa will be attending W&M next year and I think could be convinced to keep playing.

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