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We are pleased to announce that the first mirror of this event will be held on QBlitz from Nov. 1 to Nov. 12, 2021. Registration and payment will be handled by QBlitz. I will post here when the registration opens on the QBlitz website. The set will be played in duos and cost $15 per player. For now,...

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Just an update on this set. It is exactly 50% written/edited and will be done by mid October. It will be available to mirror alongside other in person college or open tournaments beginning then and extending as long as demand necessitates. I will likely be holding a online mirror in November.

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frogfractions wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:03 pm Any updates on this? I am very interested in playing!

The set is about 30% written. Production is going a little slower than anticipated, so we are now shooting to have the first mirror of this set sometime in fall 2021. The open post has been updated accordingly.

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I’m pleased to announce PAveMEnT II, the sequel to the recent PAveMEnT (Popular Music Auditory Music Enthusiast Tournament). PAveMEnT II will once again be an online music doubles tournament oriented around popular music, i.e. non-classical music. The tournament will be written by myself, Victor Pav...

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Assuming my defense in July is successful, I will be beginning a postdoctoral fellowship at Texas A&M University in fall 2021. I will be available to staff college events and play open tournaments in the east Texas area. I also plan to stay active in the community in a writing and editing capaci...

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I moderated this set yesterday and I just want to say that I appreciate all the improvements made based on feedback from the playtest mirror. I noticed quite a few changes that improved an already solid set and made it even better

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Hi all,

I hope everyone enjoyed the set. I have made a Spotify playlist of all the songs clued in the set that are on Spotify (which turned out to be 99% of them). The playlist is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5PGdN ... QUG31VKydQ

Enjoy!

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Hi all. I am happy to announce TELEOLOGY ( T aylor's E clectic and L yrical E xpressions O f L earned O ddities and G oodies for Y ou), a hard open "hybrid" vanity side event written by me, Taylor Harvey. The set will consist of 11+ packets of 24 powermarked tossups. This will be a challen...

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Here is the packet.

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Packet 13, Q10 on Papua New Guinea: the clue on the film Dead Birds focuses on the Dani people, who live in Western New Guinea ie Indonesia, so it appears this clue is not correct. I like this question otherwise though!

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Notes jotted down by packet/round: R1 -The Sumerian myth bonus seemed pretty hard -Our team found it odd when we were prompted upon giving the answer "priest" on the TU on prostitutes; if that prompt is going to be in there it needs to be directed to avoid confusion -Maybe a regional bias,...

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This was a fun and well made set. Thanks to all the writers, editors and logistic people that made it happen! I think WORKSHOP can and should be a staple tournament for the community going forward. I will give my general thoughts on the tournament by category here, and note questions that made me pa...

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The set has been posted to the archive: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2581/

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Hi all. I wrote a packet in the spirit of Festivus that I didn't finish in time for the true event, but I read it the other day to UF people. I will read for the community at large on the main Discord #packet channel on Thursday 1/14, 9 PM EST . It is mostly on video games, movies, (pop-ish) music, ...

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Could I see the bonus part about rock edicts cluing from Ashoka? Our team answered "steles" instead, which I think should at least be prompted, although I might be missing something. The question was: 12. The western movement of the Xiongnu confederacy pushed these people south, which in ...

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According to the poll Sunday, 1/10 is the most popular date, so we will run the scrimmage on that date starting at 1 PM EST . We will be using the "main site" Discord server, since many team participating are already in that server. I will send out links to this server a few days before to...

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I've added WUSTL, Oxford, and Cambridge to the list. It be nice if we could get on other team interested so we could get an even 12

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All team/players who have expressed interested should vote in the poll posted here to decide on a date: https://forms.gle/YGv56mWXQjcg9BAc7
Please select all date you can attend. If we can't find a date/time that works for everyone, I'd be happy to read the packets as shootout some other time.

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There are still three FLopen packets that no one has heard, and I think it would be fun to to a short, three-round scrimmage mini tournament for college teams that played the first few mirrors. I'd like to invite Maryland, Berkeley, Columbia, WUSTL, Stanford, Illinois, Chicago ( with minor line up c...

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Could I see the tossup on justice (from one of the earlier rounds)? A paper by David Sachs claims that an earlier thinker committed the fallacy of irrelevance by equivocation of this concept with possession of a “balanced soul.” After forbidding all ordinary definitions of this concept in frustrati...

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The only question I remember not liking was the tossup on Tlön, because the way it played it out in all instances I was aware involved early recognition of what story was being described (since there's a limited pool of details from which the question could draw), followed by a testing of the playe...

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Talk about specific questions here.

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This thread is for general discussion of FLopen overall. Discussion of specific question should go in the other thread. Thanks to everyone who played FLopen, I had a blast staffing the main site mirror and I saw lots of fun had and impressive demonstration of knowledge all day. This set was entirely...

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A private discussion forum for this set now exists, so request and discuss away.

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We could use a few more staffers for this, especially fast, clear readers. If you are interested in staffing, please email me at [email protected]. Staffers will be paid $30 for their work.

Edit: We are good on staff now. Thanks to those who have volunteered!

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The King's Flight to the Scots wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:33 pm Could I ask if you guys have decided on a start time yet? We have players from the Midwest and West Coast on our team, so it would be beneficial to us (and others) if the tournament started at a time that accommodates them.

We will start at 10 AM Eastern.

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I think my post in the other thread may have come off a but too critical and nit-picky, so I wanted to post here to say: this set was excellent. This is the best set I have played at this difficulty and should I think it should be a model for how to go about writing future sets at this level. The qu...

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-Cluing the Bridge of the Drina for "Bosnia" felt a little hosey since its written in Serbo-Croatian, which I bet is the only thing most player know about it at least for a lit perspective. My teammate negged with Serbia on this clue and I would have too. I think this specific point is to...

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This set was very good and I enjoyed nearly all of the questions from content and style perspectives. I jotted down some notes on questions that stood out to me, either for positive or negative reasons: -The question on "The Idiot" felt like something of a rehash of of the same conceit of ...

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Has a final format been chosen? EDIT: And if a final format hasn't been picked, when might it be picked by? I imagine people would prefer to know sooner rather than later if they can schedule anything else on the 22nd. Thanks! The one-day option won the the format poll, so we will being going with ...

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A few things I remember off the top of my head: -the toss up on Bengal could use a prompt on British India, at least on the early clues. -On the Colson Whitehead bonus, I'm not sure that Pulitzer Prize works as a easy/medium part, especially since The Underground Railroad also won the National Book ...

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I want to congratulate the writers and editors on what I think was one of the best tournaments in recent memory. The difficulty was spot on, the context clues in the TUs appeared in just the right spots, and there was of course a ton of interesting content that I am excited to learn about when I rea...

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This mirror has been cancelled due to lack of interest. Teams that were planning on playing this mirror are encouraged to play the Mid Atlantic Regional mirror, or any other future mirrors that may be hosted.

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Mirrors will by default be regional. One benefit of online tournaments, however, is that smaller sites can be condensed without creating transportation barriers. ACF reserves the right to move teams and staffers between sites. ACF intends to mirror 2021 ACF Regionals in the following regions : Sout...

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I'd like to encourage teams planning on playing this tournament to sign up soon. We currently only have one team signed up, and I'm not sure if its worth holding this mirror unless we can get at least 6 teams. It might also be possible to merge this mirror with the Mid Atlantic mirror if there just ...

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This tournament is still about a month and a half out but I've been thinking about the format a bit and wanted to take a poll on our options. As to avoid an endless Discord-fatigue day, I think it'd be best to either do a single day of 8-10 rounds OR spread the mirror out over Saturday and Sunday, w...

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Is there a fixed date yet for the "main site" of FLopen? I know things are still very much up in the air, but regions are starting to come together to plan their fall schedules. It be nice to have some additional information here so that regions don't schedule non-novice events against wh...

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This set is currently 40% percent written and still on track to be complete by November 2020. That being said, it would be helpful to the editors to have a few more hands on deck when it comes to question production. We are currently seeking several experienced writers who can commit to contribute a...

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I have culled my visual questions a bit and will be reading a packet of 45 TUs on Monday, 4/20 at 9 Eastern. Most questions are trash and art films, but there is also some misc. trash and painting thrown in as well.

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1/64: June v Sip
32/33: Qiyue v Kisaragi
17/48: December v Eryue
16/49: Kartika v Sotz'
9/56: September v Shimotsuki
24/41: Chaitra v Ashwin
25/40: Kannazuki v K'ank'in
8/57: Minazuki v Mak

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3/62: Thermidor v Self-Existing
30/35: Pédale v Frederick
Quiz bowl once tricked me into reading Ubu Roi and I was not a fan
19/46: Absolu v Lilius
14/51: Shakespeare v Moses
11/54: Prairial v Descartes
22/43: Bureaucracy v Chaos
27/38: Hypatia v Pluviôse
6/59: Discord v Palotin

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I just found a packet on my computer I wrote for a UF quiz bowl party in August called "25 toss ups" and I would like to read it on the discord. These are mostly pop culture questions with a few goofy academic questions mixed in. In general its pretty accessible in difficulty but there are...

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I really enjoyed this set. It really felt like it hit the sweet spot on difficulty and had tons of interesting content. My only gripe is with the set is: the 20th/21st century Thought distribution skewing pretty heavily toward analytic stuff at the expense of Continental topics/thinkers (it felt lik...

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RMPSS (3.5/3.5) 1 Mythology 1 Religion 1 Philosophy 1.5 Social Science This part adds up to 4.5, not 3.5, and I don't see any compensating mistake elsewhere, so I think the posted distribution actually adds up to 23/23. Good catch. This was just my arithmetic goof. The "RMPSS" and "O...

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I am pleased to announce FLopen (“flow-pen”), an open level quiz bowl tournament to be played in the late fall of 2020 or winter 2021. The set will be head edited by me, Taylor Harvey, with Jonathen Settle co-editing. The set will be written by members of the University of Florida quiz bowl team. Th...

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While playing SCT last weekend and puzzling at the intended difficulty of parts of a bonus we heard, a thought occurred to me: why is it not standard practice to mark the intended hard, medium and easy parts of bonuses in the question text? Doing this would only be a tax of a few seconds on the part...

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Should we finally consider using the five rounds of 20-tossup packets of film questions by former Valencia player Sean Platzer? I reckon that would only take 90 minutes or so if run as a shootout, a little longer with duo teams or something. Whatever! It's done and ready if people think that would ...

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Florida A beat Florida B in a one game final to win the tournament. Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6118/

Congrats to all the players from a fun day of quiz, and thank you to Tracy Mirkin, Alex Shaw, Jonathen Settle, Zach Foster, and Cody Johansen for staffing.

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Florida A beat Florida B in a one game final to win the tournament. Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6118/

Congrats to all the players from a fun day of quiz, and thank you to Tracy Mirkin, Alex Shaw, Jonathen Settle, Zach Foster, and Cody Johansen for staffing.

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I edited the philosophy, social science, and other fine arts, and I hope everyone enjoyed my approach to these categories. I think I tried some somewhat novel things with distributions in this 3/3. For example, I reserved 4/4 of the 16/16 in social science for "Sociology and Other Soft Thought,...

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