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Is Rochester happening?

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I noticed in the stats that in our game against North Babylon, it says that we heard 80 tossups - I didn't notice any egregious errors, though I haven't looked at them in much detail. Thanks again for a pleasant tournament experience! Fixed. https://www.naqt.com/stats/individual-performance.jsp?tea...

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Both of Ithaca's teams had a great time at this tournament - it was well-worth the long journey down. I'd like to personally thank the staffers for being really friendly and helpful, and for getting stats up so quickly. I noticed in the stats that in our game against North Babylon, it says that we h...

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using the new Morlan rankings! I think this season truly showed how you can't just predict matches by looking at PPB- Bergen(#90) has two tournament victories(in the absence of High Tech/Bethlehem/Charter), while we and a few other teams have lost to Alex Schmidt and his Lehigh Valley Academy team(...

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If this is run at HSNCT, would it coincide with ACFNATIONALS, the JRPG tournament that's set to run there already?

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Shangdevin wrote:I would say we are probably between Ithaca and High Tech B. I heard that Casey Wetherbee from Ithaca is very good

Mediocre at best, perhaps.
Ithaca A most likely won't be competing at full strength until nationals. We'll be missing Daniel and James at Prison Bowl.

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Let's rank teams in the Northeast using the new Morlan rankings! Fun! I've tastefully excluded New England from this. Not sorry. 1) High Tech A 2) Charter A 3) Bethlehem 4) Hunter A 5) East Brunswick A 6) State College A 7) Ithaca 8) High Tech B 9) Ridgewood 10) Livingston A 11) Kellenberg 12) Manhe...

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I heard that Hunter's Sarah Hamerling has got a pretty bad case of senioritis right now. Albert Tai might organize something on Skype though. Casey - I think we should start polling interest for NASAT. Speaking from what I know, it appears as if the Upstate NY players are more interested in playing...

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How is transportation going to be organized?

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I've updated adjustments (in my internal spreadsheet for now) for everything except for A sets and HERMES. The 14 other adjustments are finalized. After this, I'll need to go through and update my ranking sheet, and then we'll have new rankings. These adjustments will be in use until the prenationa...

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I'd be interested if transportation could be organized such that anyone not in the metro-NYC area would be able to attend. Last year the team joined the NJ team in a van, if I recall correctly. I'm not sure, though.

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Those tournaments are happening on the announced dates; I'm trying to lock down the last hosts. Does "last hosts" imply that there have been first hosts? As in, have there been confirmed sites that are hosting regionals on the 31st? And if so, why haven't these been advertised or publishe...

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Just a question to whomever it may concern; is there a date for the upstate NY NAQT championships that are supposed to happen at Cornell? I know that metro-area NY has a forum post and a date, which is why I'm asking.

EDIT: Never mind, I just noticed the update. How sneaky.

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Mountain Lakes : Even with Ron, they haven't really been having stunning performances. I don't know if they'll be able to equate to what they were last year. Mountain Lakes has yet to have it's #1 and #2 players togther at a tournament this year, due to Columbia's Science Honors Program as well as ...

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Okay, here is a based analysis of teams in the Northeast, courtesy of me. They're sort of in order of how well I think they'd do in tournaments in general, but the order is interchangeable for the most part in general sort of State College : I'm going to use this opportunity to quote His Most Honora...

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There's no question that Charter, Bethlehem, and High Tech are going to be the top teams in the region, probably on both housewrites and IS-sets. GNS did really well at LIFT, which should bode well for future tournaments. One team I hadn't heard of before was Kings Park, and they did very well, beat...

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After LIFT I only have one comment to make. GNS is REALLY good. Watch out for more impressive finishes from them throughout the season. Are there going to be stats for LIFT? Looking at the field for GSAC, I'd be surprised if there were a more stacked tournament so far. All of the A teams look natio...

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Has Ridgewood played a housewrite this year? I think these rankings are great and accurate for the most part. The Morlan rankings did change today, shifting around some of the teams. The next tournament that Ithaca will probably be attending is GSAC at St. Joe's, if anyone cares. Judging from the fi...

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That bonus is pretty rough for a high school one. Expecting high schoolers to know Speak, Memory seems excessive and while "Boy" is reasonably notable, some descriptions about Dahl's other books or characters might have been nice so it isn't just a total title recognition thing. I agree w...

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As a whole, I noticed that the bonuses had two fairly easy parts and a big jump in difficulty on the third. Basically, it was pretty hard to 30 a bonus in the set. It was also pretty hard to power tossups, though for the most part they stayed true to the announced answerline difficulty. This was de...

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Are you basing this on stereotype? You can't know someone's sexuality by looking at them. You might be able to make a guess. Even so, there's no way for anyone to say "I think that quiz bowl is 'overpopulated' by LGBT people" - that just sounds ridiculous on so many different levels. Ratc...

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Are you wondering what proportion of Quizbowl players identify as LGBTQ? Yes. I am aware this is not a number we have or could obtain readily. I mostly wondered if people felt that quizbowl was either over- or under-populated by LGBTQ players compared to the general population. (Not that we have go...

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I think that there is a fair amount of LGBT representation in quiz bowl, but it's not as obvious as something like the Stonewall riots or straight-up tossing up "same-sex marriage" or anything like that. If the topics specifically pertained to LGBT-related events, terms, etc. there wouldn'...

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I disagree with the comment above that playing the tiebreakers out was a "waste of time." For those involved it was the fairest, and normal QB, way to handle it. Its only a waste of time until you are involved. I would have thought it was a waste of time if I was involved. It was already ...

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Ithaca's game against Cooperstown was 435-80 - it must have been entered wrong into the stats. Overall, this was a pretty fun tournament. It went much later than I and most people there would have liked, and some of it seemed controllable. For example, I thought that the deciding the circles of deat...

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Can I see the tossups on Mahayana Buddhism, lay investiture, Umberto Eco, Dover Beach, Thanatopsis, Nigeria, and Robert Frost? Sorry for the semi-long list.

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I don't know what happened with Livingston, but based on their performance at PHSAT, I was surprised that they didn't make playoffs. In all fairness, that prelim bracket was pretty loaded, but I did expect Livingston to come out on top. They were missing two members of their A-team (Geoff and Natha...

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Yeah, I agree with that as well. Ithaca and Mountain Lakes, and Pingry to some degree, seemed to hold their own against many of the teams on that list at QuBIT, though, and they might deserve mention as well. I don't know what happened with Livingston, but based on their performance at PHSAT, I was ...

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If you want a real answer not based on my tongue being in cheek: it's very early in the season, I have tons of teams that I fully expect to be great that haven't even played a tournament yet, and a bunch of stat lines on sets that I don't have new adjustments numbers for that I truly feel confident...

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:
Crazyflight wrote:I find it a bit mind-boggling that Bethlehem is placed as low as it is.
it's really bad for them that these binding rankings are final for the rest of the season

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I find it a bit mind-boggling that Bethlehem is placed as low as it is.

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Do these rankings mean that stat adjustments have been made for some sets?

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Manheim also did unexpectedly well, at least to me, and they were without a lot of their teammates from last year. Since we've been mentioned, I should clarify that the Manheim Township on Saturday was not our true A team. It contains some members of it, but Saturday was our Homecoming. I brought t...

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christino wrote:Do you know what room it was in? There were some rooms with missing rounds or the like.

I'm not exactly sure. Does this mean that they're completely lost? I didn't keep stats that round so I don't have them. I'm just curious because I don't know our bonus conversion that round.

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So, in other news, whoever voted in the poll was a bit off. Although I think we can come to a general consensus that — barring any rapid improvement in the next couple of months — Bethlehem and Charter A will be the dominant northeastern powers, I feel like the rearrangement of teams under #1 could...

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Ithaca certainly enjoyed themselves at this tournament. For some reason, our last match with The Pirates isn't in the stats; could that be fixed? Thanks.

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So, in other news, whoever voted in the poll was a bit off. Although I think we can come to a general consensus that — barring any rapid improvement in the next couple of months — Bethlehem and Charter A will be the dominant northeastern powers, I feel like the rearrangement of teams under #1 could ...

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Great Bustard wrote:Additional follow up - is there specifically any sort of national championship for Model UN or Model Congress?

There is no specific championship for Model UN as far as I know. All of the most important conferences are international.

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jonpin wrote:Stuff like check-in time and location, what to bring for the dorm rooms, etc.

I'm pretty sure that's all on the website.

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I didn't get any other information, no. I don't know what else we'd need, though.

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Ha.

I don't think there's that much to say. I'm going to have three other rising sophomores with me at the Kutztown ACE camp - are any other schools sending people?

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Can I see the tossup on "If"?

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Could I see the conversion on The Red and the Black?

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:
Crazyflight wrote:
Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote: I'm having a hard time finding info on Livingston from New Jersey. Can anyone help?
I'm pretty sure Livingston loses their two top scorers, David Song and Chris Tseng.
How about Kevin Peng?

He's graduating.

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote: I'm having a hard time finding info on Livingston from New Jersey. Can anyone help?

I'm pretty sure Livingston loses their two top scorers, David Song and Chris Tseng.

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At the beginning of this play, Aethra prays that her son Theseus will assist the title women. For 10 points each-- A. Name this play in which Argive mothers seek to bury the sons who died near the gates of Thebes. answer: The _Suppliants_ (or _Hiketides_ or The _Suppliant Women_; do not accept &quo...

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Can I see the bonus on the Suppliants and Euripides? I don't know if I missed key details, but the Suppliants as described seemed to apply to the Aeschylus play. From what I recall, they mentioned the Argives and the women, which I associate with the play by Aeschylus.

edit: grammar

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Can I see the Brave New World tossup for wording? It only got through the first sentence in my room because I had read it, but I can't remember how the scent tap being left on in New Mexico was phrased.

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I hope the Florence + The Machines bonus wasn't considered trash "Mixed Impure Academic" Eh, alright. I'll take it, I guess. I guess I was mainly disappointed because the Florence + the Machines references were entirely unnecessary. Someone could have gotten Never Let Me Go from "Kaz...

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I hope the Florence + The Machines bonus wasn't considered trash, because the clues (besides the first one, partially) weren't even about the songs. One would probably assume that the songs were titled after The Great Gatsby and Virginia Woolf, because nothing was given about the songs. Aside from t...

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