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Surrender vs. Right Place Wrong Time Big snoozefest here Short People vs. Closer to the Heart Somebody please come wake up me La Grange vs. All Right Now It's not ZZ Top's best song, but at least it's exciting Only the Good Die Young vs. Hello Darlin’ Never thought I'd find a song that makes me fee...

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Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Top 5 Elvis song (the real Elvis) Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood I'm no Deadhead, but this is one of my favorite songs by them and one of the first songs I ever learned to play on the guitar....

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Given quizbowl team's need for access and limited budgets, there's four regions that make sense: the Midwest, the Southeast, Texas, and the DC area. In the Midwest, Chicago is clearly the best option, which is why it's so popular. Minneapolis has been done successfully and could be used again, but i...

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Hey, I'd love to play this, but that time during a holiday weekend doesn't work for me. If anybody else is in the same boat and you have the time to run a second session, I'd be all over it.

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

We all know the real song of the decade is Despacito: massively influential and endlessly fun. However, I'll leave a link to something else.

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City. I'm not sure which of these songs I prefer, but Get Lucky's popularity and influence make it an obvious choice to continue on a &qu...

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Wow, not a single tough call this round! Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lam...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing. With Formation out, Runaway becomes even more of a clear...runaway...winner. Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals. Tough competition between two wonderfully-executed pop songs, but I'll...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker. Cannot wait for one of these boring wastes of time to lose! Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean. I continue to be absolutely baffled by how anybody c...

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I'll vote ahead of schedule again: #1 Lana del Rey - Video Games * vs. #16 Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best. #8 Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. #9 Weyes Blood - Movies*. This is a competition? #5 M83 - Midnight City vs. #12 Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk. This is a competitio...

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I'll echo that this is the hardest selection by far. There's at least three songs here that can make an argument to win and more that should be in the Elite 8. Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is my favorite album. I've listened to it hu...

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I'll probably be out of town for the voting for the second quarter, so I'll go ahead and pre-vote: #1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness. I challenge anyone to find something better in the bracket than that bass line. #8 Taylor ...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix. Brutal first round matchup, but Robyn made an absolute classic. Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me. If any Drake song deserves to be on this list, it's his best. Bon Iver - Holocene vs. Perfu...

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#15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia Here's a good chance for me to complain that maad city was chosen as Kendrick's entry for this tournament. I realize its his most popular song, but I think for someone who's produced as much conscious rap this decad...

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel. Hard to find a better example of a pure pop song, this deserves some wins. #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. Bad Guy is cool I guess, but I doubt I'll think about it in three years. That Tribe album is very...

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Let's do some marginal analysis: if you quit quizbowl, what would you do with your time instead? Do you wish that you were spending more time on school, or hanging out with your friends, and quizbowl is getting in the way? Do you have another interest, hobby, or extracurricular you'd like to pursue ...

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The Boeing 737 MAX isn't a Dreamliner, and none of them have crashed in Malaysia.

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I would be more disappointed to miss this tournament than I was not to get to fly on Delta's inaugural A220 flight.

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Hey Harris, are you still planning on reading some more packets from this in a few minutes? I'm excited to join if so.

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I'll be on vacation that weekend - SAD!!

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Amethyst wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:08 pm Is there a possibility of an online mirror of this? I’d be interested in paying to play an online mirror.

I'd also love to hear an online mirror and would be happy to support a good cause or the people who have written packets.

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My biggest takeaway from Shan's post is that nothing we do has an impact that's even close to the same scale as travel. I did a pretty rough calculation of my emissions from the flights I've taken this year (decent proxy for the average HSNCT attendee or staffer since they're mostly 500-1,500 mile d...

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Also: if you played the NSC mirror, I have 15 questions which were written after June 8th (I have to say some of them are the best in the set, too). If you would like to hear them, shoot me a message or email, and we'll figure out a time when I can read them to you online. Yes please as long as the...

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This was super fun - thanks to Victor for writing and the team for running tonight!

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Thanks for the update Ashish! Of course, I’ll totally understand if Victor has more important things to do this weekend and needs to reschedule. Assuming it runs as planned, Zachary and Tracey or Stephen and Olivia, let me know if there’s a spot on your teams and I’d love to join.

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I'm not sure if I can commit to a packet, but I'd love to play this and think it's great to raise money for a good cause. Think there's appetite for an online mirror for folks who probably won't make it to a summer side event weekend?

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I think a large part of quizbowl culture is people so into quizbowl that it's a struggle to talk about things other than quizbowl. I can think of a number of people who I consider friends who I've tried to talk about literally anything else (sports, food, music, probably not politics) and it's been ...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Snail Mail - Lush
#1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #2: Pusha-T - Daytona

#1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #7: Lucy Dacus - Historian
#1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer vs. #2: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

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Before my rankings, my biggest takeaway this year is how the change to Billboard's formula to weight streaming more heavily helped rap and hip hop on the Hot 100. Certainly part of the reason there's so many rap songs on this year's list is that since Bad and Boujee and Bodak Yellow, rap music is th...

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#1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimited #7: Lucy Dacus - Historian vs. #3: SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES #1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer ...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel #1: Kids See Gho...

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If anyone wants a teammate who knows things about rap music, NBA, and films released since the launch of MoviePass, let me know.

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Hey Ya might or might not be the best song of the decade, but it is one of the best choices for the song of the decade. It's iconic, fun, and impossible to hate - even my Mom, who is determined to have all rap-adjacent music, likes Hey Ya!

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Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Paper Planes by M.I.A.
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash. Should have been the finals.

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Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears . I still don't know what the best song of the 2000s, and I don't think it's Toxic, but I'm pretty sure it's not Mr. Brightside. Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand Americ...

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Mr. Brightside by The Killers. Crazy is just too great. The groove, the vocals, the lyrical themes - it's all there. Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Toxic by Britney Spears. Team, I don't know what the best song of the 2000s is. But I'm pretty confidant that it is not Toxi...

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AKKOLADE wrote: American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West 23, Yeah! by Usher featuring Ludacris 16

Did you know that there are people who don't appreciate Yeah! by Usher? Many very lit people have told me it is one of the best songs ever. So sad!

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Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Time to Pretend by MGMT Duh One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Duh Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine How are either of these songs still alive? Lose Yourself by Eminem vs. Rehab by Amy Winehouse. Rehab is good ...

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day. Green Day is for angsty teenagers, the dude's voice is annoying, and Crazy is one of the best songs of all time. Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Wake Up by Ar...

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Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Fidelity by Regina Spektor. This is far from my favorite White Stripes song, and I'm tired of hearing at sporting events (especially when they're playing it at a road game for a team from Michigan - seriously, you're using a song by a band heavily identifi...

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Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair Time to Pretend by MGMT vs. The Funeral by Band of Horses One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Independent Women Part 1 by Destiny's Child Bad Romance by Lady Gaga vs. Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Stuck Be...

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99 Problems by Jay-Z vs. Helicopter by Bloc Party. Maybe not Hov's best song, but it is up there and contains mostly pretty decent legal advice! Hips Don't Lie by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean vs. One Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In. Assuming y'all aren't tripping in what should be easy choices he...

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Crazy - Gnarls Barkley vs. Machine Gun - Portishead One of the best sets of chords I've heard. Danger Mouse is the Midas of a decade, and brought out Cee Lo's best work. Wake Me Up When September - Green Day vs. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera Life will never be long enough for me to want to hear an...

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The Fear – Lily Allen vs. Love Story – Taylor Swift There's probably dozens of Taylor songs I'd pick over this, but Love Story is boring at best. Dashboard – Modest Mouse vs. Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden I had never heard this song before, and I do like Modest Mouse, but this is gr...

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Briana and Harris, did you decide to eliminate the Interior/Exterior positions at MSU, or de-emphasize them? As I recall, in addition to the three officers, there were three "roles" (interior, exterior, and librarian, which didn't really do much), and the president chose one role to have i...

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If you vote against Bright Eyes do you get banished from Minnesota? why would you, he's from Nebraska Didn't y'all adopt him or something? All I know is that every person I've had a long discussion about him with is from or lives in Minnesota, and I had to pick either that or The Hold Steady to use...

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Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue. I thought by 2017 we had realized that Mumfard and Sons were garbage-can frauds who don't deserve be be called "folk music", or even "good music". Sad! I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arc...

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Susan wrote:
Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:
ValenciaQBowl wrote:Hmm, do you enter a Jason Isbell song from his solo career or from when he was in Drive-By Truckers? And how do you limit yourself to just one DBT song??? I mean, I guess "Zip City" came out in 2001, so....
Wanna do a 2nd Isbell/DBT bracket? I'm game.
I'm in.

Yes please

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While Fred's preview is encouraging anyone who votes against Crazy in Love or Yeah! is tripping. In any event, as the organizer of the annual "HSQB's Favorite Hit Song" poll/thread, I eagerly await having STRONG OPINIONS on this matter. Expect a lot of "I understand why you included t...

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