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As for the actual tournament, I'm probably (85-90%) solo-ing this as part of U of Alberta. What kind of solo discounts are available? (I satisfy all the clauses under the -$80 discount on the ACF website, but is that discount going to be offered?)

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Bartleby wrote:We're interested, but Almas is the only person on the team who's ever played ACF before, and asking him to write an entire packet would not be fair.

psh I managed to do this, and my team might not even show up anywhere.

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Are there other teams that plan on coming to this?

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When you say this, you are explicitly referring to hosting tournaments right? how would this work in an area without a developed trivia circuit? From what I gather, Oklahoma has an active high school circuit, so there should be a decent number of teams that would attend a tournament they host. I ac...

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If you can get rooms on campus and plug in a question set from elsewhere, I would suggest doing this often, and you can fund most or all of your team that way without needing to ask members to pony up for tournament fees. When you say this, you are explicitly referring to hosting tournaments right?...

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The gist I got from that thread is that, although there's no good answer, 20% MAX on World history was absolutely the *wrong* answer which, when getting ready to write our school's packet for ACF fall, I am starting to feel very strongly about. Either the distribution should be shifted slightly awa...

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Hey send me a PM or e-mail [mylastnamewhichwasmentinoedabove -AT- ualberta -DOT- ca], I'd like to help you get this thing off the ground. Between Ben and Mike alone, there is a LOT of experience and wisdom in this thread -- so it'll be a good place to continually refer to for advice. Do you know of ...

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I literally came up with the idea for this while asleep flying out to VCU Open, so feel free to merge this with the "More Quizbowl Dreams" thread if you want. The theory behind this stat is somewhat similar to PATH and another stat that I've previously worked out, but a little more compre...

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FWIW, I notice a shocking amount of "human bio" (ie. health-related stuff) whenever I read a pack written or edited by anyone in med school.

Not that I'm complaining.

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Well, some high school seniors had barely started elementary school in 1998; I'd say that the power mark should probably have been before Moss, but definitely should be after Cunningham. I'm gonna agree with this. Randy Moss was still on the Vikings as of '04-ish, making him modern. People with a t...

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Bud Grant coached this NFC team to four Super Bowls, three with quarterback Fran Tarkenton, but lost all four. In 1998 it averaged nearly 35 points per game with Randall Cunningham throwing to Randy Moss. In January 2010 it lost the NFC (*) Championship Game following a late interception by Brett F...

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I plan on playing this with Sinan. Any non-science players interested in joining us? Yes, I would like to join this team. Okay cool we have four now. This team will probably win, because most American teams will go to VCU at DCC. Too OP. This also means the top scorer prize is pretty much wide open...

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minusfive wrote:
women, fire and dangerous things wrote:I plan on playing this with Sinan. Any non-science players interested in joining us?
Yes, I would like to join this team.

Okay cool we have four now.

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I'll just point out that with most sports trash, if you don't read the sports question, watch ESPN, or live in the vicinity of the team, it's utterly impossible. I would have gotten the Nets question at the Russian dude because a New York Times article about him founding a political party mentioned...

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Argh why does the Moon Pie mirror have to be on the same weekend as VCU Open?

Am I going to have any chance to play a good academic regular difficulty event before next summer? -_-

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Bartleby wrote: and I suspect a large number of GTA-based Canadian quiz bowlers would feel similarly, provided they actually know about the event.

This.

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seconded

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I obviously don't speak for everyone else but if you host ANYTHING that's more or less purely academic it would probably satisfy/elate this entire thread (and myself =D)

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I think your formulation of the tiers is a bit misleading. If I were to write a tossup on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, get called out for it being too hard, and then try to defend it by saying that he's just in the second tier of Bengali authors and try to mount a defense by saying that we toss up ...

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What was wrong with the part on Bisphenol-A? I thought it was hard. Am I wrong? It came up in coursework and didn't seem to be a random thing. Isn't it important to understanding estrogen structure/breast cancer? I guess it might have been a stretch for a third part like Altranstadt. I'm a biologis...

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so I was the science editor for this tournament and am happy to receive your feedback. It was my first ever time editing anything and so, even though I'm pretty inexperienced, I hope I was able to give the science players something at least reasonable to play on in the two weeks I had to edit. Let m...

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The difficulty is shaping up to be fall-winter level on bonuses and on most of the tossups, with a few harder tossups just to keep people honest. Finals is closer to regionals difficulty, again with more variance on tossup difficulty than on bonuses. Just checking in to let everyone know the scienc...

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I'll mention it to the club in our Wednesday meeting, but if the Brendan/Yohan team is still only 2 people, I think we can absorb it into our other Ottawa teams and just make sure that they are subbed out for the round their packet is read. This is key. Even though editing is going reasonably well ...

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Just for the record, I will be full-time staffing/moderating this tournament.

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Sinan, or people from high school, are you going to be writing a packet or a partial packet? Don't know where this rumour started but I wasn't planning on playing this tournament. No packet from over here. One priority for me is to find a subject editor for science, as that's really the only subjec...

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Now that NAQT is starting to become well established in Canada and has branched out in the U.K., I do believe the questions in current U.S. Politics need to be toned down quite a bit.

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There are travel reservations in place for the Ottawa contingent for this tournament, so it will be happening in some form or another. Ditto for the Michigan contingent; I already booked hotel rooms. I'm fully prepared to help organize a guerrilla tournament if need be. Canadian guerilla tournament...

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I was there and I have to say that the questions were truly awful this year in the preliminaries (the semifinals and finals matches were normal Reach fare - so the 4 teams that made it there got to play on good questions). Even though I am not a big fan of trash/pop culture/etc., it really seemed as...

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Cheynem wrote: #3 Brown A (7th)--took a big hit on NAQT style

I'm looking at their margins of defeat and is it just me or does Brown win D1 ICT outright (13-0) if they combine their D1 and D2 teams? I think their hit was having a split line-up.

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Another problem with the Canadian circuit is that it is difficult to find information on high school quizbowl. I do agree with this one as I've basically been Woburn's link to the two tournaments they've attended this year. A central resource, webpage or whatever for Canadian quizbowl would do wond...

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Given that I probably would only convert quinoline on a very good day, that's still rather too hard for a bonus part. It's an interesting topic, but no one learns much about the middle and hard parts in one's first year of organic chemistry (I learned nothing about them); I can see purine as an eas...

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I'd also be curious to hear from teams as to why they DIDN'T attend the tournament. This was held at the same time as FICHTE was last year, but got only a fraction of the teams that FICHTE got. I'm curious as to why. For what it's worth Toronto (+ Will N) was extremely close to sending a team to th...

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I'll do my best to scavenge up some books as prizes for this, although they may or may not garner a "galore." I'll see what I can do. If you are still interested in attending, please let me know. However, I'm sure that last minute registration won't be a problem at all. erm what happened ...

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Toronto will almost certainly have several players playing this.

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Can you post more info re: cost? ie. Starting amount, discounts, minimum, etc.

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Chalk me up as another player on a (good) team that will have to miss rounds on Friday. ICT happens during our examination period and exams are something we cannot get out of, especially not for "quiz bowl". I may not even be the only person on my team with this problem. With that having b...

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I'm probably going to be responded to here with some numbers that prove me wrong/I'm going on gut feel, and maybe this is my Canadian-ness shining through but:

What, exactly, is the point of having 2/2 U.S. Politics in every pack?

(Other than that, I enjoyed the tournament)

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sds wrote:I assume it'll be a full round robin for both divisions (?)
Also, does anyone have an idea of how many undergrad DI teams will be present? We've got the one.

One of Toronto's two D1 teams will be undergraduate.

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<unofficial do not speak for club>

Can tenatively say Toronto should have at least 3 teams coming to this (2 D1, 1 D2) at the minimum. Just finalizing numbers in practice this week. Possibly a fourth, depending on interest.

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Toronto will be sending one team to this.

Sent you an e-mail as well.

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