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The last three years at ACF Nationals, we've enjoyed some outstanding performances in the title rounds (some of us got to watch these performances quite closely indeed!). We've also seen, all three years, final scores that were a notch lower than the other playoff games involving the two teams. Addi...

So, this is obviously reprehensible behavior that (I really hope) Ike will reflect on and correct. I think it would be a mistake for this thread to be a screed against a problematic action taken by one person (this point, though, would sure be helped by Ike showing up and briefly addressing the conc...

Michigan defeated OSU B in the second game of an advantaged final to win the OSU site of EMT. Full stats will be up shortly. EDIT: Stats are up at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4374/stats/all_games/ Thanks to all staffers who came out, particularly given the amount of team/staffer drops w...

This tournament will take place in the Enarson Classroom Building, with registration starting at 8:30 in Room 230. Rounds will start at 9:00 AM sharp. The best place to park is the Tuttle Garage at 2050 Tuttle Park Pl . A logistics email detailing the schedule, etc. should have been received by all ...

Who's signed up to go to this tournament?

Field updated (there's still room available, but teams should contact me IMMEDIATELY if they want to add).

A full logistics email will be sent out this week, but please make checks out "The Academic Team at the Ohio State University."

For a long time now, I've been meaning to get together a singles tournament of speedcheck-plus-length questions (as in: A real singles tournament, rather than speedcheck shootot; you play head-to-head games like normal, but with teams of one). I'd consider trying to get it together for a side event ...

With this tournament about a week and a half away, I wanted to remind teams to shoot me an email registering (anyone listed in the field is officially registered, so you're good). I've heard interest from other schools, but am still waiting for confirmations.

Northern Midwest: Case Western Reserve University (April 15th) Though I have reservations about whether it would be worth a trip to play this in its present state the weekend before Nationals (something like May, or later in April, would be a different story), in general I really want to support th...

Date officially changed to Sunday, 4/2/2017. Updated field posted.

Hey all, Due to the nefarious machinations of the OSU scheduling department, it now seems like it will be very difficult to hang on to a suitable set of rooms for April 1. Since this weekend worked so well for everyone, rather than move the tournament to another week, I'm inclined to host it Sunday ...

Date locked in for April 1. Looking forward time seeing you all there!

Barring objections, this tournament will almost certainly be on April 1. Will confirm the date shortly unless I hear outcry otherwise.

On the off chance anyone is heading to the party from the Detroit area, I get in at 7:30 and would love to catch a ride, if it's convenient.

The Ohio State Academic Team is pleased to announce a mirror of the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament (full announcement at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19515 ). This will be an undergraduate tournament , with difficulty aiming for markedly easier than regular. We encourage ...

My team (me, Clark Smith, Athena Kern) has had a drop - currently seeking someone to join our roving band if misfits. Especially someone who knows science.

I thought this was a fantastic tournament, certainly the best this year, and as good of a regular event as I've played in a while. Of course, given the editing staff, you didn't expect any issues - but I also thought this tournament had some really great content that rewarded areas of knowledge (or ...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to scheduling issues for a number of teams, this tournament has been moved one day later. As reflected in the announcement, it is now SUNDAY, December 4th. Also field has been updated. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

The OSU academic team is pleased to announce a mirror of Terrapin, to be held Sunday, December 4 at the Ohio State University (apparently you have to say "the" or the ghost of Woody Hayes appears and beats you to death with a a buckeye. Whatever that is). This will be a regular difficulty ...

Re: Early Fall at Youngstown State :: 8 Oct 2016 OSU will be sending 2-3 teams.

OSU will be sending 2-3 teams.

Could we get a more recent field up? Thanks!

I'm dreadfully late to the party on this (the price of moving the day after CO), but I wanted to weigh in on a few points: First, thanks to the editors (John, Mike, Matt, Mike, Aaron, and others) for their hard work on this set. Let's not forget, as we traverse statistical sorcery and the far reache...

To be very clear: Not speaking as a staffer here. So in general, a feedback/opinion thread is a net positive, and I'm happy to see NAQT (/PACE/HSAPQ) properly recognized for steps they've taken to improve past shortcomings - basically the hallmark of a quality organization vs. a group that just gets...

I've been busy and neglected to check this thread, but I would really like to play this tournament and emphatically hope we can expand the field. I'm looking for teammates at the moment. If it comes down to it, I can try to track down a staffer if that's necessary to add the extra team(s).

I'll be starting a PhD at OSU; will probably enter at least a few years of greatly scaled-back activity, but I'm hoping to still show up to stuff.

I'm playing this tournament and am looking to put together a finely-structured team.

This tournament was excellent. Sure, there was some bonus variability, and some clunkers, but that's how it goes. Overall the set was fantastic, and did an impressive job of striking the right balance between exciting and accessible. In particular, this set should be seen as making a strong case tha...

Yeah that's vintage Bruce. The only thing Brucer than that is Hungarian dinosaur warlords.

female interest questions The somewhat cringe-inducing nature of this phrase aside, I am continually baffled at how the editors of Cottage Bowl continue to define this, because it basically epitomizes a huge part of quizbowl's issues with sexism (at least as it pertains to cluelessness over subtlet...

To be clear, I wasn't defending editorializing (which, let me remind people, happened in like 3-4 questions at this tournament!) as always ok because it's correct. It probably doesn't have much value added, and that's fine; I'm not like, intent on becoming a martyr for the odd packet joke, I just do...

For some reason my notifications didn't come through, so I never saw the updated posts in this thread. My only complaint, already mentioned, is about some of the political commentary in the questions. I hate the House of Saud as much as the question-writer, but I don't think lines such as "ever...

Let's play more quizbowl. We should be able to run Eyes Saturday night, Cottage Bowl Sunday, and Will's tournament either Saturday or Sunday depending on time.

Can these stats not be uploaded normally? Perhaps I'm missing something, but I can't even access the individual detail page, for instance.

After the tournament, multiple MSU people told me you had acted extremely rudely towards them. It's up to them whether to accept your apology, but I knew that none of them are very active on the forums (as evidenced by the poor communication about the tournament) and weren't going to call you out. ...

I'm generally loathe to make single-tossup posts, but the leadin in the "terrorism" tossup was egregiously terrible. I'm fairly certain it said "The Welsh School considers this concept to be socially constructed" or something closely equivalent. This clue is utterly content-free...

I'm generally loathe to make single-tossup posts, but the leadin in the "terrorism" tossup was egregiously terrible. I'm fairly certain it said "The Welsh School considers this concept to be socially constructed" or something closely equivalent. This clue is utterly content-free....

No seriously why did anyone decide don't take in more buzzers? Did you just want to tempt fate or are you slow? Ok, so, yeah, you should never turn down buzzers or moderators. But this isn't fair. To my knowledge most (all?) of the people running this tournament were doing so for the first time. Yo...

As a moderator at this tournament, this is not what I heard. When attempting to give someone a trophy, the response, "why would I want this," is very difficult to interpret in any way other than rudeness especially given the events that had just transpired. Claiming to not recognize that ...

Oh, yeah, I see how that was taken the wrong way (though since you weren't there, you couldn't). A bunch of people were standing around after in a random game room, I was on my phone dealing with a professional emergency that had just come up, and someone appeared out my peripheral vision and handed...

As a word of advice, sometimes in life things don't go your way. It's an important life skill to learn how to deal with that reasonably instead of acting like a child. Surely people tamely posting in this thread asking for an update would not remotely justify this response. I don't know who this is...

Yeah, the tournament is in less than 12 hours so it would be cool to get an update on where to go or what the schedule is or anything to indicate the tournament is, in fact, still happening.

(I actually don't really care about any of that, but I do really want to confirm that we can run SHAWARMA).

So guys we're running SHAWARMA right

Yes for the love of god please run SHAWARMA.

1) Powers are fine. 2) Making the decision as an editor that you don't think you'd do a consistent or good job powermarking a given set (depending on difficulty/the editorial team/your competence) is also fine. In short, the current systems seems to me, well, just fine. I don't see any clear reason ...

I'm back at Chicago for another year to do a specialized M.A.

This is like a regular M.A. but comes with an ACF Nationals trophy.

To me, a lot of this debate misses the larger point that you can't really count on "sportsmanship" or whatever to carry the day even if we agreed it was desirable (I share some of Matt B.'s reservations that it isn't). Like, will I always try to behave in the way Ike describes? Yes, becaus...

You shouldn't even be allowed to charge money for mirroring this set in its current state. I'm completely serious when I say that this was one of the most fun trash experiences I've ever had. A lot of that has to do with the 2000s slant, and "female-friendly" content, both of which I pers...

I think I misread the situation to be that you couldn't edit because of how much writing requirements you also had, and that Matt was potentially available to edit. Looking back nothing really suggests that to be the case; consequently my proposal doesn't work, and I revert to the other position I i...

Perhaps the members of Chicago's A team should redirect their desire to write "12/12 excellent questions" to their ACF Nationals packet, which as far as I know we have not yet received. As the next deadline for ACF Nationals is March 15 and the proposed deadline for this would be after th...

I doubt anyone wanted to play this tournament a great deal more than I did. That said, I agree that having people to cobble together an entire set in three weeks is not viable. At the same time, I absolutely agree with Dave Madden that CHB is really important and can be a great part of quizbowl. Unf...

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