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For the sake of clarity, Columbia Quiz Bowl's website is outdated with respect to summer practice times. They do in fact take place from 6 to 9 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Hamilton 309. Ben just had an important but somewhat impromptu appointment with a professor on Tuesday.

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I'm surprised Ionesco hasn't been mentioned yet, but I've adored everything I've ever read/seen by him. Rhinoceros in particular is one of my favorite works of fiction ever.

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Can somebody recommend to me books on Aztec and Egyptian mythology? I've got nothing for Aztec, but Gods, Heroes and Monsters by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz is fantastic for deeper cuts of Egyptian myth, and I can guarantee that it will also comically over-prepare you for any ancient near eastern myth if y...

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I'd like to volunteer to staff this. I'd also be open to playing if necessary to keep the number of people playing even.

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If anybody's looking for a teammate that will nail one or two absurdly specific things and then get absolutely nothing else, shoot me a message! Otherwise I'd be happy to staff this.

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I think I remember Chris Chiego posting something in this ball park for high schoolers. Maybe that could be jury-rigged a bit. (Incidentally, I'm jealous your administration offered the possibility of getting funded at all! Princeton's entire budget has been the profits from PHSAT and whatever tourn...

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However, when you actually look up some of these people, you find that many of them aren't the best-known folks in the field This really is the cardinal screw-up of these sorts of questions (Duckworth is actually kind of a bad example, because she's taught in psych 101 classes a lot nowadays, but t...

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If there's demand, would people potentially be okay with allowing a five-person team or two? Don't think it's wise to have too many teams - six is ideal for a double round robin + finals setup, and minimizes the number of rooms we need (3) but wouldn't want to shut out people who want to play. As l...

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Would anybody be interested in playing a packet of super-hard pre 20th-century Japanese history and/or a packet of stupidly hard Ethiopian and Somali history? I was thinking of writing them for fun and to lock some cool stuff that doesn't come up much in quiz bowl into my head and then figured I mig...

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(sadly Princeton's program seemed somewhat unstable during his time) On the non-competitive side of things we've actually been more stable than we look. One of the sillier things constraining tournament attendance is that Pton's academic calendar is, well, wonky to say the least with the result tha...

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So far, 34 people have received at least one vote. There are some exceedingly close votes right now, including who will make up the top five (and aside from #1, what order), who will be in the top ten, and who will be in the top 25 (#25 and #26 are currently separated by one point). So please send ...

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As my signature would suggest, I'll be at Cambridge doing a one-year master's, and will hopefully be able to play the UK circuit as much as possible. EDIT: because I am eligible to do so (thanks Alex and Stephen)

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This was very fun to read through...Wish I could've played! Even though I would have been a complete buzzer rock on most of it, the above summarizes my feelings. Also, as you can guess from my avatar, I'm super happy that Ubu got tossed up (though to be ridiculously pedantic I should point out that...

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People who I think should get a bump from last year: Rafael Krichevsky - Rafael was already his team's best player on hard questions, but this year he's also improved his ability to translate this into more buzzes against top teams (notably, Ben Zhang had a higher PPG in top brackets than Rafael la...

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Lotta theater. Watching theater (time and money permitting), listening to Broadway soundtracks on a loop, being in things, particularly musical theater and improv, that sort of stuff. Also, stuff like the Civilization games and Crusader Kings 2 are a major part of why I'm better at history than any ...

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Will Nediger is Canadian. Will Nediger is the only person to have won ICT, ACF Nationals, and Reach for the Top Nationals. Has anyone come close to winning all three of ICT, ACF Nationals, and University Challenge? We're backing Jason Golfinos to do the triple next year :shock: Jason Golfinos is sl...

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Can I make a quick plea for exactly two more people to sign up for this either as a team or as free agents? That way free agents can be arranged such that we'd have six teams of two.

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Jared, do you have an idea of when you're going to decide the date for the tournament? So far, five schools have expressed the desire to play on April 15, so that seems like a good date to hold it. Speaking in my purely unofficial capacities as "guy submitting the room reservation forms" ...

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Liberty-- J: Spends a bunch of time on Constant, who is, like, not a philosopher? A: Yeah, once again, if your goal when writing a philosophy question is to reward engagement with philosophy, you should clue philosophers. How is Constant not a philosopher? Eric Xu first-lined this tossup with somet...

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I'm rustier than the Antikythera Mechanism on my Greek and Latin, but I'd definitely be interested in such an event.

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Because I forgot to post this in the chat afterwards, the final score of my Broadway packet (including the tiebreaker) was as follows, using my ridiculously imperfect method of knowing some but not all peoples' names and occasionally trying to glean a first or full name out of handles: John Lawrence...

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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but is there any chance these questions will be posted? Silly answer: If you give me back my legions (sorry I couldn't resist) Serious answer: It's up to Kurtis, but it almost certainly will be at some point. The other writers and I all have copies of the set as we...

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Um, yes please (assuming you're fine with college people playing).

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I intend to have a Broadway packet ready to go. I'm about halfway done with it at the moment. Right, so my Broadway packet is now two questions from completion (one actual question and the tiebreaker), so it'll definitely be good to go for Festivus and will follow the following answerline distribut...

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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi wrote:
luke1865 wrote:Will stats for this tourney be up soon?
Looks like the Standard Division's prelim stats are up. Nothing other than that, though. (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4104/)

My understanding is that it's finals week at Columbia, so the stats delay is pretty reasonable.

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Quantumhovercraft wrote:I have ~20 ASOIAF/GOT tossups if people are interested.

Seven hells, yes.

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I intend to have a Broadway packet ready to go. I'm about halfway done with it at the moment.

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The most important thing you need to do, and I can't emphasize this enough, is to really enjoy history as something to learn regardless of its quiz bowl utility. The primary reason I'm remotely competent at this game, especially in history, is that reading old packets and wikipedia articles and hist...

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Badass eschatological Muslim superhero Jesus, the things being announced right now!

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I think everything that I thought really needed a fix has been mentioned already, except for the bonus part on Themistocles, which was really unclear on whether it was asking for Themistocles or the Battle of Salamis based on the wording.

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I think Murakami should be prompted (for Haruki) at above ACF Fall difficulty and outright accepted at lower difficulty. Frankly, I think it really has to depend on level of play to determine what is "reasonable" - though I'm not opposed on principle to having the same standard for all le...

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Not a movie, but the episode "Bambi" of the show The Young Ones (highly recommended in general) centers on the main characters going on University Challenge (the same QB analogue as in Starter for 10). It also features Mötorhead, if you're into that.

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mozzarella wrote:Thinking about writing an anime-themed trash packet. Is there any interest or is that too niche for you guys?

I'd only be able to answer things about a small set of shounen series, but I'd be interested nonetheless

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My apologies. My statement that Hunter B qualified was based off of the initial posting on the NAQT website, which clearly had not reordered things from how SQBS spit out the rankings. Sorry to that hard-working squad for my silly error.

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How did qualification for nationals work? Was there an official PACE certification? I submitted our tournament info to PACE, but haven't heard back from them, so I can't really say. Hunter A, High Tech A, Lehigh Valley A, Hunter B, Ithaca A, "Mather" A and Princeton High School A all qual...

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Congratulations to Hunter A, who won both games of a disadvantaged final against runner-up High Tech A

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Logistics email forthcoming later today. The email will ask you to do this as well, but please respond to the logistics email with the number of buses your school is taking (if any) to the tournament as soon as possible. Parking services tacked that demand on at the last minute.

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Expect a logistics email from Abhiram as soon as we hear from Parking Services regarding which parking lots we can use (they seem to have forgotten to tell us that even though we are approved to have people park on campus). We can't wait to see you on Saturday. We still have two spots up for grabs a...

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Could the coach from Mountain Lakes shoot me a quick email? The email provided on the registration sheet doesn't seem to be working. More importantly, we've recently selected a new officer corps of co-presidents Amy Tien (atien@princeton.edu) and Jared Lockwood (jaredal@princeton.edu) and tournament...

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That's 5/6 of our field cap! We will also definitely be splitting into competitive and standard divisions, barring any unlikely and bizarre pattern of sign-ups and/or drops that makes such a thing no longer mathematically feasible. At the moment the field for the respective divisions is the followin...

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That's 3/4 of the field cap now. Also, if you would like to mail a check please send it to either of our treasurers at Rachel Brill 4054 Frist Campus Center Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 or David Ting 2433 Frist Campus Center Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 This information has b...

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Out of curiosity, has a 2016 edition been compiled?

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The field is currently just over a third of our initial field cap. I'm going to wait for a few more sign-ups to make the call for sure, but as things are trending now, a division split definitely looks feasible.

The tournament's three weeks from today, so sign up soon!

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I'll definitely get to work on it, then.

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Apologies for the delay, folks. Princeton University Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce Princeton High School Academic Tournament (PHSAT) XXIV, which will take place on Saturday, Semptember 26th, 2015 using NAQT IS-158. This is the same set as SWISS I, so teams from the NYC area should strongly consid...

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Just out of curiosity, I'm thinking of writing a Broadway packet, possibly for Festivus. Would there be any interest in such a thing?

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Quick update: PHSAT XXIV will happen on 9/24 on the Princeton campus using IS-158. This is the same set as the Smithtown West tournament, so schools from the NYC area should probably head there unless they really want to visit NJ or something. The scheduling person gets back tomorrow, so we should k...

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This fellow history-loving relative nobody would definitely be interested, time permitting.

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One thing I noticed in this set is that it made a seemingly-conscious decision to include no foreign language alternate answers in literature, and even specifically asked for English titles in some questions (but not all). Was this actually a conscious choice? In any case I think it's definitely be...

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So, this was my first time writing for...well, anything other than required packet submission tournaments, so my only goal was to write non-bad questions. I decided to write a few questions on clearly historically important people or things that don't get asked a lot like Philip V and Teotihuacan, b...

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