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Church51907 wrote:U of L is interested in possibily bringing two teams to this tournament.

Matt Church
University of Louisville

Excellent. And may I expect packet(s) from you?

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graduate programs tend to be broader than you imply, like American History to 1865 or Military History Is this true? Do actual, real-life history grad students study 200 years of history or an entire type of history? I've never, ever, ever, ever heard of this. The broadest my soon-to-be chem PhD pr...

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Hilltopper22 wrote:Should also mention that more packet-submission tournaments means teams have to write questions which is also one of the best ways of expanding one's knowledge of the canon.

Does that mean I should be expecting a packet from you for Moon Pie? Because that would be, you know, awesome.

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I got off work for this, put us down for a team. Excellent; we look forward to seeing you. Packet should be forthcoming whenever I can get time to do it. Even more excellent. Remember my advice from earlier; I doubt your packet will be as bad as you think if you model yourself on some of the tourna...

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Do we have any information on the field that isn't posted in this thread? I've already taken a vacation day on April 29 for travel purposes, but I want to hold off on buying airline tickets until I'm sure that there's sufficient interest for the event to happen. To answer your question: yes, there ...

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Assuming we do get to attend, which will highly depend on me being off that Saturday, this will be our first attempt at writing a packet. As a matter of fact I may be the only one who participates in writing it, so as a forewarning excuse the craptastic packet from Snead. Pardon me for cluttering t...

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One thing I do for NAQt packets is stop the clock when I do things like turn the page; that extra ten seconds off the clock won't derail the tournament timing, but the savings can allow one more tossup to be heard.

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What's the target difficulty for this tournament? Though more details will emerge in a bit, my idea was to have it set somewhere between Fall and Regionals. Is there an adjective for that? Is that what "Standard difficulty" is these days? Anyway, this will be a packet submission event (or...

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I believe I would have an interest in this, yes. I would like to point out the the Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South is taking place around Halloween in Richmond. Is any quizbowl event occurring in the area at that time? If so, which one? If not, I wonder if ...

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Because I was a stats-obsessed prima donna for pretty much all of my playing career, I have paper copies and statistics from lots of old tournaments I attended. These include many not currently on the Berkeley Archive. I was thinking about making .pdf files of these (the copiers at my school will do...

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Apparently Student Organizations took down the UKAT page, but yes, I wrote that. If you do decide on Lexington, let me know how I can help. A word of advice: the best way to get interest in a new or revived team there is to go to the Honors Program, since pretty much all the good HS players who go t...

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Hey, of any of the free agents mentioned in the last post want a teammate and have not already decided to pair with each other, or if anyone else really wants to play this and have need of an aged rusted hulk of a teammate, I'm available. Otherwise, I can moderate if needed, since the rest of my CO ...

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A quick question: at what time does it look like this event will end? Does a conclusion around, say, 4 seem like a reasonable estimate?

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5. Billy Beyer, Seth Kendall, Evan Nagler, and Bruce Arthur are all very good. As an editorial note, it should be pointed out that Chris had had to leave before the last two rounds to take care of his daughter, so I played this team solo. Had Borglum been there, this sentence probably would have re...

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Wanted to bump this, seeing as the first deadline is today (or will be until midnight). Also, an additional douceur : for those of you who think you can complete a packet before 12:01 AM, March 1, but not before midnight tonight, send an e-mail to utcacfediting at gmail dot com and let me know. If y...

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Also: anyone who thinks social history and battlefield history are mutually exclusive has obviously never taken my class.

Nor mine.

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Wow, is it really 3/3? Interesting. I don't remember it always being like that.

No complaints; just, again, curious.

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I was somehow under the impression that the distribution leaned more heavily towards US than Europe; is 2/2 the standard now?

Just curious.

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I think what happened is that Open teams were not eligible for trophies; South Florida therefore won outright, with FSU second and UGA third. EDIT: Some four hours later I have come to the realization that what you meant was "UGA was listed as second on this fine board and that FSU was not, in ...

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It isn't just about the 21st century, and it isn't about the South, either. Robert Meredith, the longtime coach of Georgia Tech's team, decreed that bonuses would be read in the order in which they appear the 1970s . In fact, I have gone to Southern tournaments for the better part of two decades and...

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Hey, is there any way someone from UGA could contact me? I have a question/proposition to raise.

My e-mail is camillus at gmail dot com.

Thanks.

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But if the Romans thought that Mars and Ares were the same person, and then told stories about Mars that did not occur in Greece, that is still a story about Ares. Well, that isn't entirely what happened. By and large the Romans had comparatively few myths about their gods which antedate their cont...

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Well, I guess I know something about this, so ... The biggest difference I can see is that the Romans tended to give the names of their deities to gods from other panthea rather than try to import their weird names and legends into Latin. Bruce alluded to this earlier; so, for example, the Romans fi...

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Lee: I think Charlie is taking open teams for the MO mirror he's hosting, if you were looking for a venue in which to play.

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Moderators can split this off if they need to, but I had a question involving religion and the papacy. Do popes count more as historical figures or religous ones? I mean, obviously certain doctrines clearly are religion, but what about something like the Investiture Controversy, with its strong reli...

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I like the new rules. I would, however, like to suggest an slight emendation, specifically to section D.10 involving accidental disclosure of answer: I would like to propose that in such an event a new tossup be read whether it will affect the game or not.

Just a suggestion.

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Well I like to consider myself something of a Greek myth geek, and I think I have pretty good credentials, having placed nationally at the national Latin convention. And the real myth sources (Meridian's, Morford's, Parada) would tend to agree with me, but hey, its Greek myth, so there is plenty up...

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Well, as gruesome as it is to say this, at least it was Pavarotti and not Placido, whose voice is much better; listen to each of them sing "Nessun Dorma" and you'll notice the difference.

A great singer, though, and a bon vivant of the old school model. Sad times.

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By the way, it should be pointed out that non every historian in quizbowl thinks that "military history questions = bad; social history questions = good". I was, sadly, not at Arthur's tournament, but as an (ancient) military historian I would, I suspect, have had a ball at this event. Mor...

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It's about god-damned time someone imported the :awesome: picture.

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Well, seeing as I own a house there and am fairly close to getting my doctorate from UK, I know a little about Lexington. Lexington is a growing city, fairly large geographically speaking. There are places of great, great wealth (Richmond road, for example), and some spots just off of downtown which...

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I, too, had a great time at the tournament: the reading was excellent, the atmosphere was on the whole cordial, and people seemed to be enjoying themselves. However, I noticed something while looking at the round-robin statistics and I thought it should be mentioned. According to the tabulation of t...

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What good players have there ever been from "the Bible Belt," Pickrell? I recall exactly none. Note that I am certainly not Pickrell, nor am I entirely sure what this nebulous "Bible Belt" is, but I'm fairly sure that Harding is a very, very religious school and they fielded a f...

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Winston Churchill wrote:

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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There are lots of significant academic subjects that involve rape (rape of the Sabine women in history I could actually give substantially less than a damn about this whole argument - it seems clear to me that while questions about rape as a subject are in poor taste but censorship is wrong, etc., ...

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The ECSO set has already been discussed, and there were indeed imbalances. On behalf of the ECSO editing staff I apologize that you were blindsided by an overwhelming rush of bible questions. We two humble Jews certainly do not wish to alienate the circuit goyim, and offer you our most sincere apol...

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That leads me to the following question: does the Southeast want ACF? If no one else hosts ACF events and teams only come because Charlie's such a great guy, that makes me think that most of them don't care what kinds of questions they play on. They'd come anyway if the questions were bad, so where...

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I recommend getting ahold of some redhair bud and hitting the hot tub once in a while.

If there's going to be some of that at that mirror you discussed holding, I am totally there.

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I told myself that I wouldn't get into this discussion, either, even though I have seen the questions and, in fact, played on them. So, in fact, I'm not going to. I have some thoughts on the event and will share them priately to anyone who so desires, but what draws my specific commentary are a coup...

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There were a couple of things I used to do at UK which others may find useful. Typically, practices would consist of at least three packets per night. Three had originally been chosen because when the team was in its prime, Kelly, Robert, and I would each take turns reading and leave the other two t...

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As one of the ones who asked Seth about some of the sources he used for his tournament, I was duly impressed by the extensive bibliography that he gave. I'm familiar with some of them, but not with others, so I found his annotations useful. Likewise Susan's recommendations, with which I was largely ...

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(T)he LSU, MIT, and UNC ... packet, which fortunately contained very gettable science for him - Mersenne prime, mitochondrion, deuterium, and Brownian motion. And that was really the deciding factor, quite honestly, since my comical lack of knowledge of the sciences is in fact very real. But that's...

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I wrote of this briefly in another post. As for the "controversy" Paik mentions, this concerns some paranoid ranting of mine in the hallway about an earlier round, for which I blame my own lack of sleep and an overdose of caffeine. I'm better now.

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Although partially anticipated by Jason Paik, what will follow is another long-winded, largely self-indulgent, and generally laudatory commentary, this time specifically about Knoxville's ACF Fall tournament. The disclaimer about my other post ("skip if not interested, because this will be no m...

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I would like to offer some long-winded, largely self-indulgent, and generally laudatory comments about the ACF Fall tournament. Iâ€™ll try to keep it as brief as I can, but I know my limitations. Those who know the general timbre of my posts and tend to skip them for their flaws would probably be be...

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Ryan Westbrook said: A lot of stuff that is exactly right. ... and I agree with it completely. Let not the earlier message in this thread give grounds for misinterpretation: as long as it is being done legally, every player has the option of playing in Division II, I guess. But Ryan is exactly righ...

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In the future, I will be in Div. 1, eventhough I'm only in my second year of playing. I think my opinions on this matter are well-known enough that I can claim, without qualification, that I am recognised as an opponent of a segregated Division II. I suppose I can see the value of some form of Divi...

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I am inclined to agree the the quest for new lead-ins is on its surface a good thing, provided those leadins are relevant and pyramidal (for example, a new lead-in about the battle of Crecy that involves a participant, militarily-relevant geographical feature, or strategy/tactic that is not a part o...

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Note well that a) as my mother went to the University of Tennessee from 1984-1989, I lived in Knoxville for several years, and can testify as to what Knoxville and the UT campus is like during home games; b) I went to HS in Kingsport, TN (90 miles east of Knoxville) and to college at Memphis (some s...

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