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Not including titles within philosophy tossups can lead to a lack of grounding for the ideas that are being discussed within the tossup. It also could lead to such problems that were present in the Mill tossup when the one buzzable bit of information present in the tossup before the giveaway was Ha...

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No list of quizbowl or quizbowl-related videos would be complete without Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Whenever I try to watch this the videos keep randomly switching to double-speed about halfway in. Every time that one Ira dude starts to say "Rob Zombie" I can't watc...

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I wish tournaments (especially first-time-ever tournaments) had wackier names.

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The sub-distribution of philosophy of the tossups heard in rounds (there were a few tiebreakers) was: modern: 17 middle: 14 old/ancient: 10 concepts: 8 where "old/ancient" covers everything between pre-Socratics and Scholasticism, "middle" is Enlightenment and the German Idealist...

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For what it's worth, Enchiridion was in the finals packet that was deliberately meant to be pretty damn hard. I was also under the impression that it was the most quizbowl-famous Epictetus work, but I guess I could be wrong about that.

marnold · Re: (11/15/2008) RMP Fest at UIUC Stats.

Stats.

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I'm told that a team of Mike Sorice and Seth Teitler won the UIUC mirror. No word from UMD yet. We kept stats, so I'll eventually get those posted, but for now I'll just add this info: the winning team was Seth Teitler/Mike Sorice/Andrew Ullsperger. We played a double-round robin on all 10 packets,...

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EDIT: In regards to "too many clues" in the bonus parts, ACF Fall is intended to serve as an introduction to collegiate quizbowl of the non-NAQT/HCASC/CBI variety. The more clues teams and players hear, the more they learn, and hopefully because they learn, they will improve/enjoy quizbow...

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Here's some info. Signed up teams: Andrew Hart/Brendan Byrne Rob Carson/Trygve Meade Seth Teitler/Mike Sorice Mike Cheyne/Joe Hansen David Flowers/Billy Beyer Ryan Westbrook/Will Turner (perhaps?) Interested but unpaired: Rom Carsten Gehring Shazam Jha Paul Gauthier The pricing stuff put forward ten...

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Just out of curiosity, why are people so obsessed with packet security? Of the scattered tales of cheating in quizbowl, I haven't heard of any caused by a security-breach by someone reading on bye or stealing a paper packet from the stats room, but of course my not being familiar with it certainly d...

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Chicago will have at least one team and I'd bet two.

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Here's an update: Playing - Trygve Meade Ryan Westbrook Rob Carson Will Turner Seth Teitler (probably) consistent with his policy of playing everything, I will assume Mike Sorice even though he hasn't signed himself up Staffing - Bernadette Spencer Donald Taylor me Obviously more people are going to...

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Obviously they fucked over the tournament, but the line of argument "you knew what you were getting into when you signed up" leaves Carleton in a pretty terrible double-bind. Let's say they see the tournament information talking about the tournament going until 9 and they decide that's too...

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Interest for this is very high, so I'm going to say we'll have 4-6 teams.

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That is correct. We will have 2-3 teams.

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This may seem like totally lame quibbling (because it is), but I got screwed out of a power given to William in our round against Snitches get Stitches; I went 3-1-0 in that round. Clearly this is very important, because it helps Fred's fantasy team and it gives me the slightest of PPG advantages ov...

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For what it's worth, all the maligned questions in the Chicago B packet came from a younger player with very little question-writing experience. When I got those questions, I saw some of them sucked a lot and even rewrote a couple of them (i.e., my mediocre Heart of the Andes - Church - Cotopaxi bon...

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We have had one (1) practice so far this year, which a bunch of the old people did not attend. But I will claim (with reasonable degree of confidence) that we will have 3 teams.

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So since Chicago's main "Hey, our club is great!" fair is the day before EFT, we will probably not be rolling very deep at all.

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Chicago will likely be rollin' deep.

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While the IRC will (probably) be okay with me, I think doing it over the course of a week or so on the forums is probably a better idea.

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I will be the tournament director for this at IO. Either post here or email me at marnold A.T. uchicago D.O.T. edu if you're definitely interested, possibly interested, or interested contingent on showing up to the UIUC IO. Based on the number of people that sign up, we'll figure out what format wil...

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Chicago will have at least one packet-writing team at this, and perhaps more. Is the Midwest location of Iowa on the 11th confirmed?

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I will play this, probably with some other Chicago people though as it gets closer I may throw myself into a free agent pool.

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This is completely absurd; I'd definitely play.

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everyday847 wrote: cascading

IT JUST DOESN'T WORK

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Right, but does this actually happen? I haven't heard any real complaints about this for maybe five years. Well, Dwight seems to equivocate two senses of writing "for" people: on the one hand, he uses it to mean people think "LOL won't David Seal love this Washington Wizards toss-up ...

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So I listened to all Season 2 and a lot of that was indeed wrong-headed. First, where will you ever find meta (in the original sense) clues or questions being asked where people aren't expecting it? All the problems he claims hinge on meta being foist upon everyone, which just doesn't happen. Either...

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This is back farther up, but I think it's worth addressing. Yeah, Missouri debate is really healthy. Neosho HS was fourth and Parkview HS was seventh in 2006-2007 in one of nflonline's overall rankings. That means that they have large clubs of very skilled debaters, for the uninitiated. Springfield ...

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http://qbwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=T ... +in+Urbana

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Thoughts on the Chicago Open trash tournament? I've already been told the tournament skewed "old" compared to tournaments like ASS, but my instinct is that David and I might have pulled this a bit younger than previous incarnations of this tournament. FWIW, question-writing was about 40%/3...

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Sweet action. We at Auburn will try our darnedest to make it down there. What decent (by which I mean appropriate for strong high school teams; I assume that all will have excellent questions) tournaments does UChicago hold? The only tournament we hold on a yearly basis is Chicago Open and all its ...

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I think an "Ethics Bowl" side-event should be held at some tournament next year.

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Any tournament that lets me get a tossup on O Superman can't be bad. Speaking as a mediocre player, this was an enjoyable set. I got to buzz on things I love that never come up (off the top of my head, things I remember in that category include Les Gommes, Sun Ra, THE MOTHERFUCKING OMEGA POINT, and ...

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Is there a video online somewhere of good quizbowl being played? I'm trying to explain what the game is to incoming freshmen who've never played anything even resembling quizbowl and the only concrete representations I can find are It's Academic, various podcasts or videos involving the distinguishe...

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Adamantium Claws wrote:Personally I would categorize books of the bible as religion instead of literature. I think most of them in this database are under literature.

dude, I hear it belongs in the trash distribution

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EncyclopediaCDRom wrote:I have always wanted to have Jared Sagoff on one of my teams

there is no emoticon for what I'm feeling right now

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Hmm, looking at results from KMO (pretty much the only thing that I know exists in Colorado), I see Fruita won state and Grand Junction didn't even play. If I were a betting man, I would guess that the GJ coach just moved 10 miles down the road and started another solid team and continued the tradit...

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people wrote:Colorado

As long as team-composition questions are being asked: does anyone know if this is just Grand Junction as it has been in the past? As a Coloradoan, I'm always hopeful that some other team will one day realize that quiz bowl, like, exists...

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This sort of stopped being updated. Here's a start in making it more complete: 2/16 ACF Regionals West won by Stanford http://quizbowl.bol.ucla.edu/results/ACFRegs2008_standings.html 2/16 ACF Regionals Mid-Atlantic won by Maryland http://udel.edu/stu-org/acc/pastevents/acfregionals08/ACF_Regionals_s...

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Speaking as someone on the exact opposite end of the tournament as Jerry and most others posting in this thread, I also enjoyed this tournament a lot. Since at this point in my career I belong to the class of players that Ryan Westbrook once so eloquently termed "a vast desert of mediocrity&quo...

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Chicago will almost certainly be there. To what extent will be determined soon.

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It should be noted that "decided" to play with other people isn't exactly the right term. Our special guest was basically just foisted on us.

EDIT: Also, the score for the Chicago-Brown final is incorrect. The stats show 240-205 when it was 230-225.

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On behalf of the Chicago team, I'd like to apologize to Saran from Northwestern for YET AGAIN listing him as "Sarah" in the stats.

- Michael "First Post" Arnold

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