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Well, it would depend on where you're starting from. I'm not going to tell a team who just got 10 PPB on their first ever tournament, "you can't feel good about yourself until you get to 23". At the same time, if your goal is to win a national championship this year, 23 isn't going to cut ...

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It looks like IMSA had a really good day though, almost came from relative obscurity to play in the finals. I'm not sure we can say that IMSA came from "relative obscurity". IMSA had a top 20 finish in each of the last 4 HSNCTs at that point, a streak only topped by LASA. This sounds more...

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Could someone sticky this thread, and un-sticky the 2014-15 thread?

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Could someone fix the order in which tournaments are listed on the website? Right now, they're sorted strictly by month, rather than by the actual date, so that events in January are listed first.

Also, the icon for the Western Pennsylvania bowl is in Long Island for some reason.

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Any advice on parking, for those of us who've never been here before?

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If you still need staff, I can help (assuming this isn't supposed to go super late into the evening?).

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This was tons of fun and well worth the long drive. Thanks to Richard and company for hosting, and to Charles, Seth and Itamar for being great teammates!

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If writers are going to try to emphasize this, they need to make sure not to let it get in the way of writing good, playable questions. A clue like "This philosopher, whose own sexuality helped enable his fascination with conformity and society" is quite vague. I guess it's okay for bonus ...

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I'd like to play this, so PM me if you're looking for teammates.

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I'll staff this.

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On Victor’s post Much of your criticism here is largely because it is simply outside the mold of the way that quiz bowl events often run. Yes, we don’t use SQBS (primarily because it’s often difficult to explain to novice directors compared to sending them an excel template and a completed version ...

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[*] not distracting to read. Bold and color are used to grab attention, but pronunciation guides should not grab attention. [*]not disrupting to the typographic color. The reason bold and color are rarely used for basic emphasis is so the page doesn’t end up looking like raisin bread. If I have to ...

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I want to play this. PM me if you want another player on your team.

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Is Pennsylvania no longer planning to go?

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Not sure if anyone will read this, but I will be in Wisconsin next year and would be happy to help out with anything going on there.

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I will be living in Wisconsin next year and will be happy to help out with any tournaments there and in northern Illinois.

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I will agree with Shan's comments. This set certainly wasn't perfect, but it was still a lot of fun. One thing I have to mention, though, as a PSA for anyone writing biology questions in the future: the sentence "PBS is a common wash buffer for this technique" is about as unhelpful as a cl...

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What I was saying is that a lot of people (from experience with actually talking to people) don't like when answerlines are repeated (even if there are different clues used) and often rule out an answer in their head while a tossup is being read simply because it's been tossed up earlier. The way t...

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What was the rationale behind the two chemistry tossups on sulfur in consecutive rounds? One of these was Chemistry and the other Earth Science. We felt like they were different enough in content to merit having them both. We should have spaced them farther apart in the set, though. In a similar ve...

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http://existentialcomics.com/ (don't be misled by the URL, it's about all philosophy) I recently found this webcomic--I guess it's not particularly odd in that obviously it's trying to teach you philosophy, but it's too cool not to share and not academic enough to share in the "Quizbowl books&...

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Will the playoff bracket be posted online?

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Did this thing actually happen?

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I don't know what the staffing situation looks like right now, but I will be in the area this summer and would be willing to help, should more staff be needed.

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If this tournament is still in need of staff, I'm willing to read.

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I definitely want to play.

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There was a "schedule by room" page on the website for readers to use to make sure the right players were in their rooms. At least, I used it. Oddly enough, I remember being told several times at the staff meeting not to bother checking, for reasons that weren't clear to me.

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Mr. Madden, would you mind posting the other scores from the round robin playoff rounds? The webpage still isn't filled out yet, and I'm curious what the scores were in the games. Thank you. On a similar note, none of the bee/olympiad playoff results are posted, either. Or really any acknowledgemen...

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Interestingly, I learned this year that there are more rooms at the Crystal Gateway Marriott that can work as game rooms than I ever thought (assuming the hotel staff sets them up as we had told them to...). ... which we've learned isn't the safest assumption. It seems like the hotel staff was alre...

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I. My only major issue (and this really applies to NHBB rules in general) is the idea of moderator discretion being non-protestable. I understand that NHBB doesn't want to deal with hundreds of protests, but there are situations in which the decisions of a moderator can seem arbitrary and can have ...

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I would be quite envious of anyone whose "lowest point" is truly a single hilarious neg.

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I don't mean to speak for Cody, but, ad hominems aside, I think the idea is that this is an issue between Matt and NHBB, not Matt and the quiz bowl community as a whole, and if you want the money or questions that Matt owes, then go ahead and use the appropriate legal resources to obtain them, rathe...

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CMU will be coming with one team.

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Is there any chance yet that this will switch to online?

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I personally can't come, but I'll do my best to get some other CMU and Pitt folks to come to this.

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Fisher Catholic went undefeated to win Battle of the Burgh XVIII. The pseudonymous team "ABG" (Rohin D. and John X.) took second. Rounding out the top bracket were Olentangy LIberty, Indiana, Hampton, and Boardman (not in that order).

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Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School. (Link)

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote: 3 bee packets

Is this a typo, or are we just not getting a bee finals packet?

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Great Bustard wrote: We need to compile an A Set of questions, basically from scratch, in the next 36 hours.

Just for the purposes of understanding what's going on (and not for chewing anyone out right now), does this mean there are basically zero questions written?

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Is there any news on the Rochester site?

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Some bee results tables are cut off (example). I'm not sure how widespread this problem is.

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Playoff stats are up!

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ryover%29/

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Congratulations to Manheim Township, who went undefeated to win this. State College A, Manheim Township B, and State College B all tied for second. Rounding out the top bracket were Winchester Thurston, Manheim Township C, Indiana, and Manheim Township D. The top four teams qualified for HSNCT and N...

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Prelim Stats!

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

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Camp Hill has added a second team, so we're back up to 23.

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Two teams have just dropped from the field. I will waive the registration fee for any teams that can step in to replace them.

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With one team dropping, I've added Allderdice B to the field. I will continue to accept registrations for the wait list, which is now empty, in case more teams drop.

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From ACF Nationals 2009-2014, the only change I noticed (other than Viginia in 2012, which Cody mentioned) from carrying over all prelim games was in 2009: Instead of Brown, Chicago, and Stanford finishing in a tie for first, Brown and Stanford, each having lost to Chicago B, would finish a game and...

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Added Shady Side and Norwin from the wait list.

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You're missing team no. 180.

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Thanks to Greg Bossick and everyone else at Youngstown State for running a very fun (if slightly long) tournament! In case anyone was wondering... results from the DI double round robin were (I think): MIchigan 12-0, MSU 8-4, Kenyon 8-4, CMU 7-5, Michigan B 4-8, Wright State 3-9, and OSU 0-12. MSU d...

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