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I've heard that GeoMon this year is quite a quick tournament: would it make sense to run this at lunch instead of the classical music? This might give the advantage of ensuring a longer lunch (pushing the VETO endtime back but presumably keeping the total endtime the same) for people not involved i...

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So it looks like we have at least 3 free agents as of now: - the McGill free agent - Peter Torres from UCF - Benzene from Waterloo If teams are shorthanded and don't mind taking on one or more of these people, it would be great if you could let them know (or let me know and I will pass the message o...

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I believe I can make use of 70 rock and roll audio and 70 classical audio questions for use this weekend. We already have a full slate of side events. Would people want to play these over lunch? Would people want to play these over Sunday evening? These tossups are super short (30-45 seconds) and o...

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RexSueciae wrote:Out of curiosity, how many packets have been completed for this event? Right now, the answer should be "more than one," because I just emailed mine.

I'm 22/30 of the way done, so hopefully I should have one sent in soon.

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I have the following and would be happy to trade any of them for any of the books on your list:

A Season In Hell/The Drunken Boat
Juno And The Paycock
Demian
Daisy Miller
Far From The Madding Crowd
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Kite Runner
and a music theory book called Teach Yourself Music

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with assumed packets from Aaron Wait, Aaron is writing a packet for this? From what I heard, he wasn't interested in participating in it. Yeah, writing tossups that are specifically designed to be so hard that they go dead doesn't seem like my kind of thing, as is playing them (especially if it ove...

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I'm now playing this with Shelby and Dennis, so that should leave an open spot (edit: since my team didn't have anyone else on it). I believe some Waterloo people like Erik Christensen, Peter Liu, Ming Ho, and others wanted to form a team, and last i heard Brian Luong was looking for a team as well.

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I am planning to play this with Jay, Peter Cordiero, and potentially another

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I am planning to play this with Christine and others.

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Peter13 wrote:For MERE/MOREWEIGHT, who/where do we send the completed packets to? Also, where do we draw the line between the legitimate and the ridiculous?

I hope you know things about Norwegian reality television

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Some members of the Toronto club are interested in playing Tricon at this event. Can Waterloo make this happen?

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If your field still allows for signups, Arjun Sondhi would like to play this while I sit beside him and wait for clues about Final Fantasy VI and Dragon Warrior IV

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I was talking with the Toronto team at practice tonight, and they told me that they sent you an email stating that they could no longer attend due to conflicts with exam period but did not receive acknowledgement that you were aware of that. If someone on the logistics team could confirm this with M...

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First, I'd like to express my satisfaction with the fact that there were, if I recall correctly, no less than three dance tossups in this tournament. That said, could I please see the one on "Spain?" (packet 13 I believe) I'm curious as to where the power was and the exact wording of the l...

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Like Aaron, I've seen links to things from "Polandball" on Facebook This is exactly why I thought it was the easy part. Even if you didn't know that this was a subreddit, the clues should have pointed you towards Polandball in the first place (anecdotally speaking, I haven't ever heard of...

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Bonus 14 (pretty much just three incomprehensible [really, you had over two months to fix these typos!], tenuously-related hard parts ): For 10 points each, name some subreddits: [10] The title character cannot into space in this subreddit of user created images with country flags as round objects....

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Do we have a location/start time for this?

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As far as I know, there are going to be three Waterloo teams coming to this.

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I am coming to this and will have one, possibly two, packets written for it.

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I will be playing this with Christine Irwin, Shelby Robert, and a fourth player whose identity is so shrouded in mystery that even I don't know who it will be yet.

Edit: Our fourth is Cole Jackes.

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Dave Knapp has uploaded the Lowbrow Oxford Open (LOO) here. http://trash.quizbowlpackets.com/1679/ In its original incarnation, the tournament was played on the Sunday morning of Oxford Open weekend, and was won by the Trashtards. There are 13 packets of 21/0, roughly half written by packet submiss...

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Are you using the same set from the Ottawa Quizbowl Tournament X back in November? http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16423&p=290166 If so, then teams from Ottawa should make sure they didn't play that tournament in the case that they were planning on making the drive down ...

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TheRhymeMinister wrote:And yes, we'll be sure to include an excursion to the Carleton buffet as part of the lunch options

Wait, what? This presence of such an option is a potential game changer. Yet only time will tell whether it holds up to the unlimited bacon at Ottawa

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minusfive wrote:
bmcke wrote: "Waterloo A"
Hell no. That team (consisting of Aayush R., Aaron D.R., Christine I., and myself) is "TURN DOWN FOR WHATERLOO." Nothing else will do in addressing this glorious team.

Unlike Pablo Neruda, that night I could not write the saddest line

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I'm sorry for the short notice, but I am an open player attending the Waterloo mirror tomorrow. There are currently no other open players and the RIT team has one player also. Would it be alright for us to play the tournament together?

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I actually just sat down to respond to emails. I'm sorry for taking so long to get back to some of them; I've been going back and forth between doctors over the past couple of weeks. No problem. I was just worried that I wouldn't be able to give them a definitive answer one way or the other before ...

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I am curious about this rule regarding eligibility: "iii. If you have ever scored at least 30 points per game at any college tournament." In particular, I have one interested and one potential sophomore player (Meghan Torchia and Faheem Pahlwan, respectively) who scored over 30 points at l...

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Toronto will be sending one team.

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Is this tournament still happening? I'm wondering why the host is sending its players to another site on the same day... This is still happening. AFAIK Jay Misuk is in Philadelphia for non-quizbowl reasons that weekend that could fit Penn Bowl into his schedule. This is what I believe as well. Are ...

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I am definitely interested in playing this tournament, probably with a contingent of people from Waterloo.

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Stats are up: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2291/ Edit: Some of the stat columns (P/N and G/N) are incorrect I imagine because of the addition of the superpowers column. Others (TUH) are appearing as the number of tossups having been heard by the player in round 10. I don't know why this ...

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Stats! (I think I lost the finals stats sheets, but the rest are definitely here)

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... und_robin/

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I would post a defence of superteams except that it's superfluous when the tournament has "Open" in it. Not to turn this into a debate on superteams, but open tournament or not, "I care about winning so I'm going to (edit: assemble) a team that comprises the strongest individual play...

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I think we should try some Tricon if there's time (maybe read a packet or two for fun during lunches). I heard VCU's packet was Interesting. I disagree that we should do this. Two side events are already going to take us pretty late and partially running one during lunch is a way to allow us to end...

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Rumor has it that Jordan, Jay, Almas, and Patrick are forming a superteam for Saturday. It's not unprecedented. Jordan seems to have a specific inclination for forming superteams at open tournaments. I think we should try some Tricon if there's time (maybe read a packet or two for fun during lunche...

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Just out of curiosity, how long did the tournaments/various side events take and what formats did you use for them? Knowing that would help us with time estimates for the Waterloo mirror this weekend.

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I have mixed feelings about the draft; of course it's nice to meet new people, but it can lead to some wonky teams (e.g. 4 players with significant overlap in history knowledge), and can be poorly organized. Team roster-building is (or at least should be) very meticulous and strategic, and not (or ...

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Masked Canadian History Bandit wrote:I propose that we consider running some kind of draft to get people to play with new people.

You could also just hook up with another team and swap players to form two semi-new teams.

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If there's no significant overlap between the DUST and Landscapes fields, could there possibly be two simultaneous shootouts going on (or at least play some rounds at the same time to save some time). I really want to play both side events...I was planning to run one on Saturday after VCUO and the ...

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Toronto will have at least one team for this, even if it's just me.

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Senator_Jay wrote:Imma play, not sure whom with though at this point. I've had a few offers already, but any expressions of interest should be directed to my facebook or a pm.

Jay will be announcing which team he has chosen to play for in a one-hour primetime TV special on QBPN.

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Imaginary Landscapes II, Tricon 2.5, DUST as side events? If we do side events, I would suggest picking at most 2 out of the 3. Besides that, I have no special preference as to what gets played. If the number of side events is limited, then I am much more excited about Imaginary Landscapes and DUST...

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Masked Canadian History Bandit wrote:Imaginary Landscapes II, Tricon 2.5, DUST as side events?

I would play any and all of these side events.

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Toronto will be sending at least one team to this.

Edit: Toronto is currently looking to send 2 teams, some of whose players actually attend(ed) Waterloo. We will let you know if this changes.

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Thanks for the great tournament, Auroni. I was pretty much there to back up Jay, but was excited to hear a question on Heroes 3, which is probably my favourite PC game ever.

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Could you please include round report? I'm curious to see the difficulty variance in these packets. The packets used were: Old Waterloo Toronto B2ER Westmount Lisgar McMaster Carleton Ottawa Waterloo A Washington Rolls Washington Bentley Jordan Palmer in that order. I will update the stats later to...

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We had 9 teams at the Toronto site. After the round robin, the leaders were the Masked Canadian Victory Bandits with a 7-1 records, followed by a tie between B2ER and I've Got 72 Revolutions But A Bitch Ain't One at 6-2. 72 Revolutions won the tiebreaker and ended up facing the Victory Bandits down ...

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Final details cross-posted from the Facebook event for the Toronto mirror: For Toronto teams, once your packets are done, send them to Peter McCorquodale at tak_seorangpun at yahoo dot com with your packet and any other files (audio clips, pictures, etc.) as attachments. Note that the due date is st...

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http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... pe#p219113

Classical music name that tune...just saying.

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Thank you very much!

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