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Extremely tough round, lots of close calls: Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Fidelity by Regina Spektor - was really hoping for a song that was good so I didn't have to be seen voting for 7NA, which I shamefully find catchy, and I got it! Maps by Yeah Yeahs Yeahs vs. Feel Good Inc. by Gori...

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Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair - Blind was a cool song but Hey Ya is Hey Ya Time to Pretend by MGMT vs. The Funeral by Band of Horses One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Independent Women Part 1 by Destiny's Child Bad Romance by Lady Gaga vs. Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lip...

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Reminder that the +$25 deadline is in two days.

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Marianna Zhang got me Philippe Ariès's Centuries of Childhood, which is pretty much exactly what I wanted (and is even coincidentally one of the coolest things I've read about and described to people this year). Thanks so much!

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The Elizauroni collaborative ballot: 99 Problems by Jay-Z vs. Helicopter by Bloc Party Hips Don't Lie by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean vs. One Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age vs. Supermassive Black Hole by Muse Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Not Ready to Make Nic...

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Crazy - Gnarls Barkley vs. Machine Gun - Portishead Wake Me Up When September - Green Day vs. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera SOS - Rihanna vs. Mr. Brightside - The Killers Chop Suey! - System of a Down vs. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson - my most heterodox pick, but it's simply a more musically...

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No "Escape From The City," bracket invalid

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When isn't there room for whimsy?

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Can you elaborate on what "highbrow" pop culture is? What distinguishes acceptable academic content from unacceptable trash? "Highbrow" is an inexact term for the tenor of question we are looking for, so I've removed it from the post. We will give submission on "trash"...

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The Fear – Lily Allen vs. Love Story – Taylor Swift Dashboard – Modest Mouse vs. Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden Move Your Feet – Junior Senior vs. Helicopter – Bloc Party Family Affair – Mary J. Blige vs. Fidelity – Regina Spektor Mykonos – Fleet Foxes vs. American Boy – Estelle feat...

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Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue - Kylie Minogue rules, and Little Lion Man infuriates me with its aggressive mediocrity. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Mak...

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Reminder that the no penalty deadline for submission is this Sunday.

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Second deadline half-packets added to the opening post.

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Auroni Gupta auronigupta@gmail.com 1) Cultural, intellectual, or social history books, especially good ones that you can find about the Middle Ages 2) Novels from fancy press archives (Dalkey, NYRB, New Directions, etc) 3) Steam/PC games that are good 4) A poster that, given my interests, you think ...

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* Tossups will be hard-capped at 8 lines. Please feel free to submit tossups that are longer than 8 lines, but do not submit any tossups that are shorter than 7 lines, or we will send them back to you. It seems like the other references to 7 were changed, so I just wanted to double-check: can we su...

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I have updated the opening post to reflect all the teams that made the -$50 deadline. Congratulations to the Berkeley, McGill, and Illinois teams for sending two half-packets apiece for the earliest deadline, and huge kudos to the Johns Hopkins team for sending in four (4) half-packets! Not to seem...

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I have updated the opening post to reflect all the teams that made the -$50 deadline. Congratulations to the Berkeley, McGill, Michigan State, and Illinois teams for sending two half-packets apiece for the earliest deadline, and huge kudos to the Johns Hopkins team for sending in four (4) half-packe...

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Can teams that are not required to submit packets do so for a discount, or at least the same discount as a required team would get? I have edited the opening post to make this clear, but yes. Non-required teams can earn the maximum discount (of $-50) if they submit a half-packet by December 10th (t...

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A few more sites have been confirmed (including a Penn State site to serve a new "Upper Mid-Atlantic" Region). Reminder that the first deadline for packets is at the end of this Sunday.

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The initial post has been updated with the accepted bids. For the regions with unlisted sites, we are either awaiting bids or still in the process of deliberating; please email acfregionals2018@gmail.com if you would like to host. EDIT: The centralized registration form is now up and has been linked...

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Reminder that the deadline for bids is tomorrow, October 31st.

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Just wanted to pop back in with a quick reminder: the way quizbowl and its community are set up necessarily means that a lot of peoples' mental health stressors involve other people (as we've seen in this thread). If you're the suffering person, nobody (especially the direct source of the stress) ha...

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From numerous private conversations with members of this community*, I have recently come to appreciate that quizbowl is a cauldron of mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression. Fortunately I have engaged in other dialogues that have indicated to me that this topic is being noticed and di...

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stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... stats/all/

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The field is closed at 6. Ideally I'd like one more team and one more reader before tomorrow to ensure a sensible schedule.

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csheep wrote:
Auroni wrote:Field updated. I still need teams and a couple of staffers.
I believe I sent you an email with a registration but my team (myself + Sameen Belal) is not listed.

Sorry, I missed that. You're in the field.

Auroni

Field updated. I still need teams and a couple of staffers.

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I would caution a bit against the idea of elevating modern drama in the current game, however. I believe there was a question on The Pillowman at every event this weekend where it plausibly could have come up; I believe Lori-Parks was nearly as well asked. But I'm not sure I remember a single quest...

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We'll start at 9 AM PST and continue with a 30 minute break for lunch.

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This is an announcement for the Skype mirror of It's Lit to be run on Sunday August 6, starting at 9 AM PST. It'll be doubles, just like the main event, and will cost $10 a player to play. To sign up (or to indicate that you want to staff) email me at auronigupta AT gmail.com. EDIT: I have created a...

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There's now a private discussion forum for It's Lit that you can request to join via User Control Panel > Usergroups.

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This is the thread for all discussion related to It's Lit. First I want to extend a warm thanks to my co-writers Jason Cheng and Eliza Grames. Jason's peerless enthusiasm for the world of literature resulted in him and I chatting back and forth for hours refining some of the ideas and answers that s...

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Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/

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this set was cool & good

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I'm available all nights after today.

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Congratulations to Jordan and Mike for clearing the field! The statistics will be up shortly. Since there was no need for a final, I will be reading the last packet at 8 PM PDT tonight in #quizbowl. Thanks to Eliza Grames for reading/compiling records, Matt Weiner, Ryan Rosenberg, Ryan Humphreys, Jo...

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Due to drops I am short one staffer. Please email me if you're available; I will compensate you.

Edit: this is now taken care of

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Yes. I'll announce it soon after CO weekend.

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I could very much use another team for this to generate an even field size.

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Please note the following changes to this tournament: - The set will now consist of 9 packets instead of 10 - There will be 3 drama questions per packet instead of 4 - There will be 2 miscellaneous questions per packet instead of 1 I am also now instituting a hard cap of 20 teams for this tournament...

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EDIT: I have expanded the field and removed teams from the waitlist.

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This is a very good thread in which I would have posted even had I not been called out by the opening post. I am fully on board with promoting concise writing in quizbowl. I also agree with curbing our impulse to pile on extraneous clues that are cool, but hard. There are two main reasons why I pers...

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The field is now full, but interested teams should continue to sign up to be added to the waiitlist, because I almost have enough staff to be able to expand.

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As we near our field cap (14/16), I'd like to get a handle on staffers. Please contact me if you'd like to read at this tournament.

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/1956/

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I haven't been to any CO side events before, so what's the field cap situation likely going to look like? (Asking so I can figure out how much I can procrastinate on finding a teammate.) We have 9 teams registered now. I'll place a temporary cap of 16 and then see what I can do from there once the ...

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This is the official global announcement for ACF Regionals 2018, which will take place on January 20, 2018. Please note that there are a number of significant changes from last year's tournament, which will be highlighted throughout this post in red or black bold. EDITORS: Head editor: Auroni Gupta ...

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2/ When will ACF Regionals be? This season, the date for Regionals changed suddenly and without warning from what was the past two years. This almost proved catastrophic for our team because we'd already scheduled our high school tournament for the same weekend, which meant that we almost missed ou...

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This was indeed the best and most accessible ICT I've ever played. It had sensible answerlines and cluing without sacrificing the (at times eccentric) NAQT flavor.

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Having fair easy parts is critical to maximizing the playability of your set. Sometimes, experienced writers will be so familiar or exposed to a topic, that we will assume that everyone must know it from the same level of familiarity or exposure. It might be tempting to make an author like Zadie Smi...

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