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Will there be a discussion thread set up for this?

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10. Oklahoma (UG) 11. Missouri 12. WUSTL A Take that, Itamar/Charles. https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=748236 I honestly think your teams are better than ours, but since we're on the subject of last year's ICT... https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=748252 ht...

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Effective April 4, 2018, PACE has made a few important changes in our ruleset. PACE's current gameplay and eligibility rules are available here . The two rules changes are in the gameplay rules, sections H.3 ("Protests") and I.5 ("Ethics and Conduct"). In short: Protests concerni...

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Sima Guang Hater wrote:I support this proposal, at the very least for fall and possibly regionals.

Small side note: Since Regs potentially qualifies you for Nats, I imagine that philosophically the format of Regs should be as similar to Nats as possible.

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I'm graduating in June. I'm hoping to spend most of the summer "on sabbatical" as a semi-itinerant ne'er-do-well. Unless something comes completely out of left field with my SO, I'll be doing government work in Chicago after that. I hope to continue staffing and occasionally playing side e...

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Does "the side event must conclude by 11 PM" refer to all side events, or just those conducted using (any number of) PACE provided rooms? It refers to rooms provided by PACE. We can't stop people from continuing to play events past that time in other rooms, although in the interests of th...

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PACE has made some changes to our policy on side events at NSC. Relevant changes are in bold. 1) PACE does not officially organize or sanction side events. 2) NSC staffers cannot volunteer PACE-provided hotel rooms for use at side events without the consent of all room occupants. The side event must...

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I have tried, with my past two projects, to recruit younger co-editors who are still undergraduates. However, this measure isn't enough -- we need the same people to volunteer to head edit regular difficulty tournaments, the mainstays of college competition. This is what needs to be happening. More...

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My school’s entire varsity team is graduating this year. Now that our season is over, I want to focus on passing on the knowledge base that I’ve accrued to the sophomores (we’ve never had juniors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). What are the best ways to do that? If this has already been discussed elsewhere, I’d apprec...

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We're back! We apologize for any inconvenience.

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The PACE website is currently temporarily down due to WordPress issues. I'll update this thread when it's back up.

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I went to the Reston web site to try to reserve hotel rooms, and have gotten a "nothing available" response. Does PACE have a block of rooms reserved, and if so, what is the procedure for getting them? Should I be looking for another hotel in the immediate area (which there does not appea...

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There were some suboptimal choices in both answer lines and pronouns, but this was very fun to casually shoot out after CMST. If packets 8-10 emerge at some point, I'd love to play those, too. There are also some simple conventions for visual tournaments that this tournament would do well to heed, s...

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Here's a bright idea: If you have an issue with seeing someone at a tournament, especially a nationals, please go through the appropriate channels** so that the organizations can adjudicate the issue themselves. How about we have no show trials of anybody? **EDIT: Not actually speaking for PACE at t...

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P.S. Yay I'm an honorary Old for the purposes of this argument now even though Aria and I are the same age (I'm pretty sure). I'll take it I guess. older and/or accomplished quizbowl guys Let me rephrase some of this--I didn't mean to imply that Jakob or anybody else in this thread was being a tyra...

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Oy vey, guys. Younger(?) college woman posts something very reasonable about things that drove her away from quizbowl and then older and/or accomplished quizbowl guys go nitpicking strawmen. I take a lot of issue with this post because the bolded sections read, to me, like someone who was simply (as...

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This winter, PACE welcomes Matt Mitchell as our new member. We look forward to his contributions in supporting high school quizbowl!

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Shake the other team's hands after matches and say "good game" or whatever. At Delta Burke this year I really painfully lost a game by 5 points, and I tried to make myself look busy to avoid it. Somebody on Loyola waited very persistently by where I was sitting until I shook his hand. He w...

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I suppose the issues feed off each other, but I was originally suggesting that more women in leadership positions within the quizbowl community would attract more women to the community. As an empirical matter, this has been correct in my experience (when Sarita Jamil became president our gender re...

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As someone who seems to object to people prying in their chat logs , I sure as hell hope you got permission from both parties before posting screenshots of private conversations. Will any of you on the other side do the same? "Other side"? This is literally a post/thread about how to make ...

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Stop being a dick, folks. Multiple people** have personally DMed me to agree that you are a sexist piece of shit and should stop giving your bad opinions on the forums. I realize this is a very charged topic for you, but this makes for a poor juxtaposition. [...]you've suggested that female involve...

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or perhaps we should all shut up and pretend that excess sugar consumption isn't a top of America's health problems no matter what your gender is Yes, I'm sure that addressing "excess sugar consumption" will immediately resolve quiz bowl's gender gap. I, for one, am extremely concerned ab...

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And honestly, I do think it could do a lot for improving the game's gender balance. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? You honestly think that this is why women play quiz bowl? That we're just bimbos who are here to stare at men who play quiz bowl, and not because, oh, I dunno, we like playing quiz bowl o...

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matt2718 wrote:my only collared shirt

This is also a thing you might want to consider amending.

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Hairstyles that look good on men... You know what else is good? Not blindly conforming to gender roles. you know the best solution to other quizbowlers having bad hair is to stop being so offended by other people's bad hair. it doesn't affect you, and it's not like you're deciding whether to hire t...

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WUSTL A went undefeated with a 10-0 record after beating DePaul in a one-game advantaged final. Stats are here.

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Mr. Brightside, but there's no bad choice here

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Can I see the "deduplication" tossup? I know there's already been some gnashing of teeth about it in DI.

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Mr. Brightside
Hey Ya!

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The Future National Championship Dates & Sites page says this is happening on Sunday, April 14, a date that doesn't exist (this year).

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username1 wrote:Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash

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Don't forget to get these in by the end of the week!

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merv1618 wrote:
AKKOLADE wrote:
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West 23, Yeah! by Usher featuring Ludacris 16
This is the moment Donald Trump became president of the United States.

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Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Time to Pretend by MGMT One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine Lose Yourself by Eminem vs. Rehab by Amy Winehouse Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Feel Good Inc. by Goril...

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Happy New Year, quizbowlers! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is again seeking nominations for new members ! Nominations are due to secretary Michael Hundley at secretary@pace-nsc.org by Saturday, January 13 at 11:59 PM Eastern time. PACE has many objectives, among which are: • to...

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Joe Su got me a collection of The Basic Political Writings of Rousseau! Thanks so much, especially for shipping internationally!

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Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair "Blind" was kind of monotonous, and "Hey Ya!" is probably going to the final four at least. Time to Pretend by MGMT vs. The Funeral by Band of Horses I knew "Time to Pretend" but not "The Funeral" befor...

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I took scores on my 19-tossup musicals packet for some reason, which came out as follows: John Lawrence: 110 Greg Peterson: 100 Alston Boyd: 55 Dakota (?): 45 Alex Damisch: 10 Erik Christensen: -5 Adam Sperber: -10 Dakota is Dakota Williams. I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mas...

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You: Can actually remember the names of actors/directors, and/or enjoys Remembering Some Guys I: Know some things about music and even fewer things about hockey. I was the exact middle of the field in Celebs individual PPG and randomly 30ed a volleyball bonus at ACRONYM X. Call me, beep me, if you w...

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I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mashups packet that I'm pleased to say I have another ~20 answer lines for "Trashups Packet 2: Electric Switcheroo." The trash will be mostly music and TV, the academics will roughly follow a standard ACF-ish distro (except maybe 2/0 m...

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Crazy - Gnarls Barkley vs. Machine Gun - Portishead Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day vs. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera I just have a deep, abiding distaste for songs by or for people of any gender where the point is convincing someone that they're beautiful, c.f. One Direction or any oth...

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My gift is also coming in two parts; one should arrive on the 22nd, and the other between Christmas and New Year's (whoops, sorry).

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Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue Surprised that Kylie Minogue is doing so well on here. It's certainly good, I just love "Little Lion Man." I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson This...

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As the theme of the genre used in the bonus has become so overly abundant in its usage in anime memes and culture during recent years, I hadn't realized just how insensitive and inappropriate it was to those unacquainted with anime culture. Due to the already existing negative associations and bias...

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even better our moderator was also a female it me Anger 2: Traveling MEN AND WOMEN CAN SHARE A BED WITHOUT IT BEING AWKWARD OR SEXUAL. Okay, so we are in college. We are adults, you'd think we'd be able to handle this one but yet it's still a problem. I will travel to a tournament with my team and ...

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If your practices are big enough, some teams find it helpful to split into two simultaneous practices--one for the more experienced players to read harder questions, and one for the less experienced players so they actually get a chance to buzz.

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Name: Alex Damisch Email: alexandra.damisch@gmail.com. Requests: 1. Any foundational ~thought~ text (especially [political] philosophy, which I know little about) that isn't a total bore to read 2. Regional candy or sweet things of any kind, especially if you're not form the Midwest 3. Whatever musi...

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I hear there will be live-ish stats, anybody got a link?

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I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mashups packet that I'm pleased to say I have another ~20 answer lines for "Trashups Packet 2: Electric Switcheroo." The trash will be mostly music and TV, the academics will roughly follow a standard ACF-ish distro (except maybe 2/0 ma...

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While I don't know why any teams actually want to do this, it only causes problems when rosters aren't used/carefully scrutinized or whatnot and it leads to improper seeding. The solution is to require rosters if you're going to be creating brackets. Not denying that rosters are a good thing to hav...

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