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AKKOLADE wrote:Voting closes later tonight! Please try to vote in every match up. If you don't recognize a song, listen to it! The point of the contest is to expose people to new music in a hopefully fun way.

Also make it a point not to be swayed by good vs mediocre music videos, regardless of song quality.

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Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns

I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys

Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks

Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips

Best of You – Foo Fighters

Clocks – Coldplay

Standing in the Way of Control – Gossip

Hoppipola – Sigur Ros

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Granny Soberer wrote:Thank you mysterious stranger for the barbecue sauce.

That stuff is a joy from my childhood! Also I'm shocked it got there so quickly.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming was better than Blade Runner 2049.

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inb4 hey ya wins

but I enjoy this idea

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Adam Sperber
[email protected]
100% gift satisfaction rate

Ideas:

A novel or history book you love (be selfish!)
Motown or good folk albums
A fun board game
Foodstuffs, spices, yummy foreign delights
Something LA Rams-related

I'll echo Dylan: if you know me well enough, freestyle as you see fit

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I'll have some A Song of Ice and Fire questions for it.

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On the opposite side of the spectrum, if you're interested in modern folk Sarah Jarosz is excellent.

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The game "Wits and Wagers" is the one where I've most been able to use my quizbowl knowledge to crush non-quizbowl people the most. It's a trivia game, with the twist that all of the answers are numbers (stuff like "What year was Liberia founded" or "how many feet tall is t...

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El Salvadoreno wrote:Ishiguro was a safe choice, but sometimes the safe choice is the right one, especially after last year's debacle.

2020 much?

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I'm going through the first two installments of Golden Sun again and it's honestly better than I remembered. Alongside KOTOR these two series are the best I've played.

It's a very open-ended question what with plot, gameplay, etc, but which are your best experiences?

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Vissi d'arte wrote:Any chance for a Skype mirror of this?

Seconded

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Betrayal at House on the Hill, History of the World, Galaxy Trucker, Small World, Mascarade all very fun

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mozzarella wrote:Okay! Hello! Hello!! This will be played in the Quizbowl Discord this Tuesday (8/8) at 9pm!

what time zone

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Something I hope to see out of all these emerging teams is a greater emphasis on attending MOQBA tournaments as opposed to jumping straight to MSHSAA districts and state.

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I'd be thrilled to go 2/10/8 on this.

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Northwestern still has Adam and Greg, if their grad programs don't prevent them from playing, as well as a small but extant supporting cast.

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15.366 wrote:(Auroni does claim I delivered the sickest lit buzz he has ever seen, so there's that.)

Do tell

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Silverman wrote:In honor of the 20th anniversary, I'll read my half-packet of Harry Potter tossups in the IRC at 11 EDT tonight. These are the same ones that were played during Festivus, but hopefully there are still a few interested people who haven't heard them.

yup

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This was delightfully silly and well worth playing.

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Vivit wrote: Harris also wins the neg prize for negging an astonishing 35 tossups. For the record, Adam negged 34, ten of those being in one round.

Fake news

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I'm down

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This was an absurd amount of fun and a great set besides, thanks for writing.

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Tea and Borges combine for a wonderful quiet evening.

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Eddie wrote:I will be reading João this Sunday evening at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern. Let me know if you're interested.

Yeah sure

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The bulk of my major activities were musical in nature. In high school I did choir, orchestra, and pit orchestra for musicals but still acted in most plays. At NU I joined Phi Mu Alpha (as did Cory and Dylan), and was one of the renegade Jews in the chapel choir; through the latter, I met Joseph Sch...

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Down to play at PACE, seeking a partner who knows recent games and smells not bad

EDIT: Even though Michigan State stinks, I'm playing with the presumably hygienic Harris Bunker

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Barring anything sudden, I'll be moving to Chicago. Happy to staff stuff, etc.

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I don't get to the movies that much, but a wonderful film from last year nobody's brought up yet is A Man Called Ove (Swedish, dir. Hannes Holm).

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I somehow managed to live 25 years unaware of Wonderful Christmastime's existence.

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Many, many thanks to Alex Damisch for what has to be the best Secret Santa gift I've ever gotten, including a Stravinsky biography and Darlingside album among other tasty goodies and a wonderful card. I'm seriously flattered.

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Peter13 wrote:
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Peter13 wrote:This morning I received The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring. The book certainly seems promising, but I would like to know who to thank for getting me this gift.
sup
Thanks so much for the gift Adam! I really appreciate it!

Of course! Lemme know how it goes.

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Peter13 wrote:This morning I received The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring. The book certainly seems promising, but I would like to know who to thank for getting me this gift.

sup

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Mine'll be there in the early December 20s

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jasongg17 wrote:
Quantumhovercraft wrote:I have ~20 ASOIAF/GOT tossups if people are interested.
Seven hells, yes.

Guess my side project will be read much later then.

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Adam Sperber merv1618 at gmail dot com Requests: 1) Music; I love modern folk but won't say no to anything you enjoy, unless it's the Kinks or Bolero. 2) Biographies of interesting people 3) Movies, specifically acclaimed comedies; I'm already well acquainted with Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and the Ma...

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All the cool kids want to play Pokemon packets

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Bliss

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: Similar things can be said about Illinois' 2012 ICT run, especially given that they were seeded 18th (!) before the tournament.

They have already been, in fact, said.

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Illinois beating everyone besides UVA and Minnesota to make the 2012 ICT finals should be up there.

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OctagonJoe wrote:I wrote a half packet comprising 3 groups of 3 tossups that share a theme and 1 tossup that might elicit the statement "that's random." I'll read it on the IRC sometime when there are people to hear it.

your overall specificity intrigues me

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jasongg17 wrote:Just out of curiosity, I'm thinking of writing a Broadway packet, possibly for Festivus. Would there be any interest in such a thing?

Yup

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This looks delicious.

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This is easily 80+% my own idiocy, but there was some tossup which started out about a brother not wanting going on a plane. I stupidly negged with Rain Man on the spot but still might have been right in the frivolous protest universe where everyone's a nitpicky asshole. What TU was that?

merv1618 · Re: Chicago Open Trash 2016 (July 24, 2016) was very enjoyable

was very enjoyable

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This looks great. My one concern is that given but I will reduce it to $0/player if someone (or multiple people) can promise me that that they will write a myth side event for next summer. and that this is at least the third gen myth side event, how exhausted is the myth canon going to be if a fourt...

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Steeve Ho You Fat wrote:Y'all need Vorticity to release a diss track on other regions

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A team will be upset about their playoff bracket, perhaps even that of another team.

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If you're looking for someone who writes quickly and can guarantee a solid 4 ppg, hit me up. My strong areas include ACF Fall-level myth, folk music, and Olympic sports.

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Here are several: Jean-Baptiste Lully died from an infected foot, caused when he stabbed himself with a staff while conducting. The orator Draco died after a speech when lots of his audience threw their cloaks on the stage as a form of laudation; they smothered him as a result. There's a way onto th...

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