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"Growing up" outside the DC region, The Peasant Wedding and Hunters in the Snow were definitely the most famous Brueghel works.

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MLWGS-Gir wrote:
ClemsonQB wrote:That's exactly my complaint, there is no mention of "Ethiopia" in the tossup.
Whoa, seriously? Which round was that in, so that I may go look? Evidently we never got to peer-edit that one; I wasn't aware that there was history we didn't get to.

5th round.

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I have no problem with writing "participants" because the reason for having lead-in clues is not to award guessing but rather knowledge.

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That's exactly my complaint, there is no mention of "Ethiopia" in the tossup.

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It's strange you say that, George, because for that Axum tossup I actually thought "the language was Ge'ez" was a giveaway in the first line. I would not have buzzed as early as I did (i.e. after the first line) on that question if the subsequent history had come first, but there's pretty...

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I only looked at two random packets, but a major problem I saw was the altogether lack of giveaway clues in a couple of questions. Specifically Brueghel, Axum and Six Day War.

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In the aftermath of this event, Rhinelander Waldo received a promotion before his dismissal by Ardolph Kline and trial lawyer Max Steur won an acquittal for some participants. During it, William Bernstein unsuccessfully attempted to stop it and some of its participants had earlier been part of the U...

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HKirsch wrote:I noticed a few needlessly transparent tossups. LBJ comes to mind

Looking back on it, I definitely should have done a better job of editing the LBJ question. Apologies.

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I'm curious to see what others think of the field from Texas this year. What IS the field from Texas this year? Most of the time it seems like the only really competitive teams are St. John's, Bellaire, and LASA. According to Byko's 07'-08' rankings, you're forgetting a John Cooper team which had a...

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PACKET REQUIREMENT (quoted from the ACF website): "Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2007 is required to submit a packet in order to participate in an ACF tournament in 2008-2009. All ACF tournaments, NA...

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elrountree wrote:Thanks for the reminder George. However, that only explains Dorman's absence, doesn't it?

Right, I was too lazy to edit out the other teams.

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elrountree wrote:I wonder what teams like Alpharetta, Walton, Central Gwinnett, and Dorman - all usual UGA attendees - are doing this weekend?

2 teams to GSAC, 2 to Robinson.

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The Granite State Challenge, which is done by New Hampshire Public TV, is a show in its 26th year, with 32 out of 83 high schools competing. It is a well put-together show, done by veteran host. The actual quizbowl in it is AWFUL, though. Same is true for every single one of these videos, from what...

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azngod1992 wrote:Use HSAPQ questions please!

If i'm correct, this set has already been written and edited (correct me if I'm wrong).

Yeah, according to the website, mACF set 2 has been used at UVA (October 25) and Kent State (November 22).

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Overall, though, I think this is a great set; looking at least at the first packet, Shantanu's difficulty-related science sins seem like nothing in comparison to my own. Great job. Yeah, I agree; or at least, I think that Shantanu took a lot more flak than he deserved. I looked through the whole se...

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Since the Rancho Bernardo mirror was canceled, the set can be publicly discussed. It is available at http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/nnt2008.zip. The set is slightly different from the version played at the DC site; some issues with acceptable answers have been fixed, some questions were edited ...

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GEORGESTEVENSLOL wrote:RARGH I MUST KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE RIGHT NOW OR I MIGHT JUST CONSUME THE WORLD IN ANGER

Sorry I didn't understand that asking for updates to a tournament is taboo.

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Oh, I guess I read "Our optimal date would be the weekend before ICT (March 28-29, 2009)" as saying that ICT was on the 28th and 29th, while this tournament would be held the week before that.

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Like, off the top of my head, I can recall tossups on Crassus, Marcus Aurelius, Domitian, Mark Antony, Augustus and Hadrian. Which made up 6 tossups in the eleven rounds I played. For what it's worth, this means that the seven rounds that you didn't play contained zero Roman history tossups (unless...

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It appears that conflicts with FICTE and fake trashionals.

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Minor Distribution Quibble: I don't have the set right in front of me, so I can't point out all the specifics and may be forgetting something, but I remember dudes from Roman history being really overrepresented. Like, off the top of my head, I can recall tossups on Crassus, Marcus Aurelius, Domitia...

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Unless Vandy lost that last game to UTK, I believe we were tied with them at 2 losses a piece. Either way, my day was too long as it stood and the major traffic jam on the way home didn't help matters.

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wd4gdz wrote:I just wanted to throw out the fact that Evan Nagler is an awesome reader.

I second that.

Anyways, I think we won't be able to bring a buzzer system to this.

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Oh, whoops, sorry UMD. I guess that's sort of expected though, when you have three different clubs writing.

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HSNCT (08), PACE NSC (08), NAQT IS , NAQT IS-A, HSAPQ, Harvard (from last year), Vanderbilt (from last year; I think it was shared with UVA last year as well), UTC (this year), Prison Bowl. Having played all of these (well with the exception of Prison Bowl which I've read through and an A set or tw...

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Mr. Barry, do you have a field update, or any update for that matter?

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Well, seeing how HSAPQ policy allows a maximum of six lines, I don't think 150 word questions happened.

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GARBAGE DAY 425 wrote:Dorman A lost to Blake and Wilmignton Charter A, I believe

I think they lost to State College as well, although I think they finished 2-1 against them on the day.

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GARBAGE DAY 425 wrote:George, have you never seen the flawed b/c that comes from rebounding bonuses?

I didn't realize the Earlybird had rebounding bonuses, and my direct answer to your question is no.

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For a while, I was stunned at the amazing P/B's of both Rockford Auburn and Carbondale, but upon further investigation, it appears each team received 10 pts more than they should have on two different occasions. I mean, Siva is a pretty cool guy, but 39.09 ppb in one round is a little bit of a stret...

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Also, why in hell did Stendhal come up twice as much as MLK in that year of A series sets? I said I didn't think this was a good idea; and at least one of these should surely have mentioned Julien Sorel. But honestly: "two tossups on Stendhal were eight months apart in our sequence when they s...

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In 1989 this man's doctoral thesis for Boston University from 1955 was said to have been plagiarized This man compared Racine and Shakespeare in an 1823 essay He never finished his novel The above are absolutely useless clues, why are they being written? Sure, "absolutely useless" is an o...

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Any updates, Jack or Matt?

I've heard something very interesting, but will wait for confirmation.

EDIT: Never mind, I was told a blatant lie that Dorman lost to Pikeville.

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Bad Boy Bill wrote:If nobody else but me cares about unnecessary question length, then I withdraw my remarks as a pointless effort to persuade.

While I agree that unnecessary words should be taken out of questions, I believe Ike's point is that pyramidiality matters more.

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Geography, History, Fine Arts and Science... Hmmm, I think we may be missing literature.

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It appears that both Kyle and Douglas are forgetting that there will be two full tournaments held during the WoQ unless things have changed significantly. You can't fit six events into 2.5 days.

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Yeah, I agree with Henry. Also, sometimes ethnic groups can even be considered geography.

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Not only that, find me a tournament's worth of acceptable answers. Well, lets see: There are around 192 countries, and within those, you have US States, Canadian Provinces, Australian states as well as plenty of other sub national entities. So we'll say 300 possibilities here (countries and subnati...

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Unless there is much more interest in this tournament from other teams, Clemson will not be attending. This said because their is minimal interest among the Clemson club and I've heard that GT will, in fact, not be attending.

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As Chris Chiego, George Stevens, etc. end up writing a larger and larger percentage of quizbowl's history questions, I expect that the number of civil war questions overall will increase. I don't know how accurate that is; sure I was born in SC and have lived there all my life, but sectionalism pla...

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I am uploading stats after each round here. http://student.virginia.edu/~quizbowl/cav13/cav08_standings.html Holy crap, Maggie Walker is certainly to be feared. Crazy bonus conversion, remarkably even tossup getting. You guys will be at NNT, right? To add on to this, they also seem very disciplined...

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I don't see anything earlier in the thread about nationals qualification, and I believe a lot of people would be up in arms if it were possible to do so on only 24 questions.

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Ranking wise? Its probably going to be the same teams it always is: ( this is in no order ) Pikeville (I believe we have one of the strongest teams we've had in a while) Dunbar (Always extremly good) JCHS (They're pretty strong this year) Manual (They can be contenders) Russel (Matt Knupp always br...

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It would be a stretch to say that 95% of teams can answer a tossup on William Shakespeare, much less get a math comp question from the first clue. Also, you extremely overestimate the number of people who have even heard of Flanders.

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So if four lines are enough, why do ACF Nationals tossups sometimes eclipse 2.5 times as long as this? Is ACF Nationals not the epitome of good quizbowl?

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I don't think Ike is commenting on the writing process, but rather the quality of the questions which have already been written in these areas.

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:FYI you aren't the only person on the boards who thinks that.

I know that other people have similar views on the issue, I guess that was just my passive-aggressive jab at all the people who share this belief and are more articulate than me (so like everyone) to jump into the conversation.

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Obviously "impossibility" is an overstatement; however, my point all along was that four line questions just don't cut it when you're trying to distinguish these teams. Sure, their would still be "buzzer races" with longer questions, but this would occur much less frequently. I'...

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Howard wrote:I don't recall whether WoQ used 10- or 11-minute halves, but I thought we were better able to get through the entire packet if there were two good teams in the room.

WoQ used 11 minute halves.

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I only looked at three packets, but I only saw 1/1 Final Fantasy in each...

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