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Run-DMC
Armstrong
Guaraldi
Ravenscroft

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The Pogues
MST3K
The Irish Rovers
Elvis

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Hey, can whoever who has the stats from the MO mirror of this (Donald I think) post them?

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Describing the Warring States period as a conflict for most of the question was pretty confusing. This one was on me. I felt like if I just described it as a period, it would make it way too obvious it was a period of Chinese history in which a bunch of states fought each other. In my defense, Chri...

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Kurtis Blow
Sesame Street
The Kinks
Big Star

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That would work. I have both of you guys at two teams currently. If we cut those two and have some of you join Nick (and Bruce?) and some Jerry + Trevor (if they're okay with it) This is fine with me personally, but we only have one open slot - As Jerry said upthread, we're playing with Dmitriy fro...

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grapesmoker wrote:Again, I felt like the "he changed his super-Jewish name" anecdote was not terrible helpful

For what it's worth, I think this is where Bruce buzzed, so I guess it was helpful to at least one person.

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Is this set going to be posted? (Or is it already up somewhere that I don't know about?)

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Sartre is pronounced "Sart" [rhymes with "heart"] This is not true. Edit: To elaborate, Aidan was correct upthread when he said that the "re" at the end is partially vocalized. But if you're going to go with one of the easier pronunciations, SAR-truh is probably more c...

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It looks like Bentley/Davis will be combining forces with Arthur/Yetman. This tournament doesn't have any science, right?

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Contrary to what I told you at EFT, we won't actually be attending. Too many of our freshmen can't come due to parents' weekend.

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Pilgrim wrote:CMU is coming to this tournament, probably with one team. I can staff.

Scratch this - looks like we won't be coming. It's turned out that transportation will be more convenient for us for the Maryland mirror

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CMU is coming to this, probably with 1-2 teams.

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CMU is coming to this tournament, probably with one team. I can staff.

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The weekend of the 20th is vastly preferable for me. As I said in the other thread, I was hoping that Dallas's classics tournament might be played in some form during the weekend for those who haven't been able to hear it yet.

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I have also contacted Dallas Simons about mirroring his Julius Civilis Classics Tournament as a side event. I will update the main announcement once I have more information on that, but I did want to let everyone know that all persons who agree to moderate (that are not from UIUC) will be allowed t...

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I could potentially come to this if it was the 28th.

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One argument against video games that I find particularly resonant is that you are capitally screwed on most video game questions if you don't have primary knowledge, i.e. you've played the game. If I read a video game review, I'm not generally going to get the sort of detail that allows me to buzz...

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OctagonJoe wrote:I don't know who this "Charlie" is on my team, but he sure looked a lot like Trevor.

Not to mention that those stats don't seem to be very accurate for me, since I got a lot more that one question in the playoffs.

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I'm bringing a buzzer that will be available for all of the CO events.

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bt_green_warbler wrote:Partial stats are better than no stats.

Still hoping this will happen.

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I think it's easiest for skype practices if you just have the reader use skype and have everyone else buzz and give their answers in a messenging client of your choice. That way people don't even need microphones to do it.

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Any chance that stats were retained for this? I realize that exigent circumstances made it difficult to cobble together a full staff and even locations for this, so I definitely understand if there isn't. Due to circumstances surrounding room mix-ups, I may or may not have all of the scoresheets. T...

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To clarify my earlier post, for any round robin featuring an odd number of teams, there is always some series of game results that can result in everyone having the same record. Edit: Just number the teams 1,2,...,n and have team k beat teams k+1,k+2,...,k+(n-1)/2, where addition is defined modulo n...

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nobthehobbit wrote:(Note: I haven't checked whether the "all teams at 5-5" scenario is possible, at least beyond the trivial "total wins = total losses" necessary condition.)

Such a scenario is always (theoretically) possible in a round robin with an odd number of teams.

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It happened. Case won with a 10-1 record, I believe, and the Pitt Alumni team and Delaware A finished 2-3 in some order.

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tetragrammatology wrote:
Pilgrim wrote:I'm interested in playing and am seeking a teammate. I'm not great at arts in general, but I can get some solid buzzes on visual arts and jazz.
Want to team up?

I sure would.

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Yeah, I answered with Golden Apples and it was accepted.

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gyre and gimble wrote:
Pilgrim wrote:I'm interested in playing this and am looking for a teammate who doesn't care about winning games.
Want to team up? I'm not expecting to win either.

Sure.

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I'm interested in playing and am seeking a teammate. I'm not great at arts in general, but I can get some solid buzzes on visual arts and jazz.

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I'm interested in playing this and am looking for a teammate who doesn't care about winning games.

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I have to plea my ignorance on rebellion of 1745, are there other notable Jacobite rebellions? There was another, smaller one in 1715, so I have no problem with "Jacobite Rebellion" being prompted; I don't see why "Second Jacobite Rebellion" wasn't acceptable, though. Actually, ...

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Nobody ever complains about two tossups on people in the same round; why do they complain about two tossups about Eastern European battles in the same round? What justifies this distinction. In all seriousness, I think there are a couple of possible distinctions. First, country tossups are generall...

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If this works well, it could lead to new ways to format tournaments. If you have a power-matching system like HSNCT, there could be some way of running the last few rounds that would guarantee no repeat matches--an algorithm could be used to determine match-ups for the last few rounds that would be...

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Stats: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/college-b ... dings.html

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Congratulations to State College A, who went undefeated to clear the field and win CMU's mirror of MUT. The top bracket was rounded out by Maryland A, Duke, and Maryland B. Thanks to all teams for coming, and special thanks to Charlie Rosenthal and Dwight Kidder for coming to help staff. Stats will ...

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From an email I just sent: Hello All, Registration for this tournament will start at 8:30 am in Porter Hall 100 (2B on this map (http://www.cmu.edu/homeimages/campus-map/CMU_MapColor_11x17.jpg), with games beginning at 9:00 sharp. Free parking can be had in the Morewood Lot on Forbes (P12 on the map...

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First post has been updated with time/location information.

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Terrible Shorts Depot wrote:If you need me to, I'll come and staff this, because I've already played it and I live like 5 blocks away.

That would be totally awesome because it would mean I could give our freshmen more of a chance to play.

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I should be on at some point to offer feedback on math and CS, but likely not until 8:30 or so.

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Field Update:

Pitt (2)
State College (2)
House (probably 1)
Case?

More teams should sign up for this.

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I was going to make this a separate thread, but it's not really worth it. It's nice to say stuff like "anyone who's read or read about Billiards at Half-Past Nine is likely to know it" but that's pretty obviously wrong. Example 1: Jerry, whose love of Boll is like 1b on the list of meta-t...

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I already talked to Chris about this, but I think that as a general rule, if you are going to refer to someone by their title in a history tossup, you should check to make sure that that they are the most famous holder of the title, or otherwise try to include some qualifying information (e.g. a nam...

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Maryland beat Penn twice in an advantaged final to win the tournament.

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The Toad to Wigan Pier wrote:We have to drop our DII team, I would change this on the NAQT website but apparently what I choose as my password is not what I remember.

The same thing with my password is happening to me. We also need to drop our DII team, but I cannot access the website.

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American wars of independence against Spain Blast my elementary teachers, I knew the texts were all mestizo propaganda designed to keep us from going bilingual! You may or may not be aware, but in addition to "America" being the location of a certain group of "United States," it...

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I will gladly neg your philosophy tossups.

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Was the entire visual tournament played at VCU's T-Party, and if not, is there any chance of a couple rounds of it being run during lunchtime or something? I'd be extremely interested in playing this tournament if it is available. After SCT on Saturday may be a more convenient time to run it than d...

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CMU will have one team.

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CMU will have a DI team here, but DII is looking pretty unlikely. Should we be using the naqt website to register?

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