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The public library in my hometown has sales every few months where hardbacks go for a buck and paperbacks 50 cents, with prices eventually halving by the end. Being a college town, there are always very good donations (and the rare mint condition Calvin and Hobbes recently purchased from a Barnes an...

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Ukonvasara wrote:
merv1618 wrote:Does anyone know who's actually going to be on Chicago B?
I do, but I'm not telling you.

fiend, i say

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Mewto55555 wrote:
merv1618 wrote:Does anyone know who's actually going to be on Chicago B?
Yeah, we've actually got our roster lined up, before our school year has even started, before we've seen any of the new first years, and before we've settled on an A team. It's a secret though.

you fiend

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Does anyone know who's actually going to be on Chicago B?

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Goole by-election, 1971 wrote:In case anybody's wondering, everybody who played stuff at some point last year except for Dan is going to be back for us.

You're killing me here

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The Predictable Consequences wrote:I believe Stephen Liu graduated from Harvard and is starting law school at Columbia.

Nah, he's back at Harvard from what I'm told.

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I'd play a BBT packet

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theMoMA wrote:Are there any governors general (or monarchs, on the English side) that could be decent quizbowlers?

Elizabeth I was famous for actually paying attention to Edward VI's tutors and becoming multilingual and well-learned, so maybe her?

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My Team USA - TR - He covers military history, along with biology and natural sciences, plus he's just a well-read guy. Also, I assume he'd do well at 19th century American politics, and all manner of election of 1912 tossups. I would worry about him having a negging problem. T. Jefferson - early A...

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Bill Clinton would be a very strong social sciences player because of all the stuff he studied while he was a Rhodes Scholar, plus current events because of his whole still being alive thing.

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bradleykirksey wrote: He's like Sam Bradford but with a slightly better final smash.

Hey now. We goin' all the way this year.

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Cheynem wrote:When you have completed a packet, send it to me at chey0004 AT umn DOT edu. When I have a non-one amount of packets, I'll see what time/setting works best.

Is there any unofficial deadline or just a soon-as-you-can deal?

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As would I.

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Ukonvasara wrote: Chicago Open 2014: FOX ONLY FINAL DESTINATION NO ITEMS

Wombo Combo
that ain't Rob Carson

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Ukonvasara wrote:I personally think that Eric Mukherjee is OP and should be nerfed in the next patch.

His final smash wasn't all that great though.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Granted, I had nothing to do with the production of that particular question, but regardless I shall promise to not to use Cuban-planted lies in my future writing endeavors.

Fair game for everyone else, then

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This is tangential but still relevant. To moderators, if someone's obviously very close but still incorrect, don't say "Sorry, I can't take that" or things of the sort because it essentially gives it away for the other team. Also, don't preface tossups with ANYTHING: prominent examples are...

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How many per list

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vinteuil wrote:
merv1618 wrote: one match containing two organ tossups
I missed what????

Bodily organs, sorry

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In no particular order 2010 HSNCT: the only national tournament I ever played in high school. Hickman didn't do particularly well but it was my first glimpse at good quizbowl as a whole outside of Charlie Dees' MU tournaments on I-sets. In addition to playing what we all thought were fun questions (...

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For Missouri, the A team I would probably choose would consist of Charlie Dees and Mike Wehrman (North Kansas City) and Max Schindler and Ben Zhang (Ladue). If we're looking at B, C, etc. teams, some other players to consider, in no particular order: Andy Wehrman (North Kansas City), Charles Hang (...

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Does anyone know who's from Arkansas besides Jason Loy?

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A Missouri squad of Charlie Dees, Max Schindler, Ben Zhang, and perhaps a Wehrman brother would hold its own quite nicely.

(Also, if we're talking just in terms of HS performance, a Pennsylvania team of State College 10/11 could wreak some havoc as well.)

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:Why why why

zachary_yan wrote:The tournament seems like its going to be held during the exact same time as NASAT, except that the NTAE is going to make you stay a few more days to see Disney world.

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vinteuil wrote:
theMoMA wrote:Hey, any way you can postpone this to another night? I'd love to play, but I have a wedding to attend.
Sure, I could move this to tomorrow same time, if nobody minds?

I mean, I wouldn't be able to do it then. Nothing personal meant to Andrew but missing these things at times happens.

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OctagonJoe wrote:Rob got 40, Joe got 30, Shannon got 10, Sam got 5, and Katie, Erik, and Mikey C. got -5 on my packet. They weren't bad enough dudes to score more. I'll read it on the IRC tonight sometime in the main room or a different room if people whine.

so whined.

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vinteuil wrote:I'll have a Beatles songs packet sometime mid to late next week.

this sounds fun

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I'm not too sure whether "start9" should be in power for Twitch Plays Pokemon; I think that if anyone even visited the site for a minute soon after anarchy vs democracy was implemented, they would see tons of "start9" spam. I would put it right after the Abby and Jay Leno clue. ...

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Charlie Dees led the charge for revamping Missouri quiz bowl from essentially only MSHSAA-sanctioned tournaments on bad questions to pyramidal tournaments, now reaching most of the entire state. As someone who was playing high school stuff during the dark times, what MOQBA has done for outreach and ...

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touchpack wrote:Andrew has real knowledge of biochem but needs to work on his packet studying if he wants to get more than 1 power at Lederberg

Wasn't there some guy who got over 40 powers on that set? I'll bet he's really good at science.

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Cheynem wrote:Am I parsing this wrong: you're saying it's a clue for power that is commonly a clue for power in other tossups?

Well yeah, but mainly it's my understanding that almost everyone and their mother who studied Greco-Roman myth at the high school level knows that story about Perseus and the discus.

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Why, why, WHY is Acrisius still in power for Perseus? Almost everyone I talked to agreed with me. (Perhaps the same goes for Ishtar getting infected with many diseases.) That Poe bonus was entirely too easy. [/quote] I just remember it being 15 in the majority of powermarked Perseus tossups I've se...

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A few other things: Why, why, WHY is Acrisius still in power for Perseus? Almost everyone I talked to agreed with me. (Perhaps the same goes for Ishtar getting infected with many diseases.) That Poe bonus was entirely too easy. The turtle shell tossup seemed to be like, "Oh, if you majored in t...

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On the "you are a rich Muslim" bonus, I feel like "People of the Book" should at least be promptable on the Dhimmi part. As I understand it, "dhimmi" refers specifically to a non-Muslim living in an Islamic country who pays the jizya, while "people of the Book&quo...

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On the "you are a rich Muslim" bonus, I feel like "People of the Book" should at least be promptable on the Dhimmi part.

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For the most part, this set was excellent. There were a few bonuses which were a hair on the difficult side (Judges) and some that were by far too easy (Poe) but all in all I had no major complaints. The science in itself was quite good as it wasn't name-riddled and required you actually knowing stu...

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I don't think it's technically errata, but I'd rephrase the Scarborough Fair tossup so that Girl from the North Country is mentioned before the lyrics used in it. Had we been in the finals I would have negged it hardcore with the Dylan title based on just those cited lyrics. Or...would you? 18. Thi...

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Relevant thread can be found here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=12994&p=240240&hilit=neg+prizes#p240240 General consensus? Probably not the best idea. Just wanted to follow up with this to say that neg prizes aren't a great idea. Didn't realize this was in the High...

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I once got a novel by Jimmy Buffett.

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Clarification: what they did made me feel unhappy about cheating in general, and I feel it shouldn't have to end this way if people did it out of stupidity or inexperience. Not specifically related to those two in any other way.

If this is a dumb idea, I'll just shut up.

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Apologize. Sincerely. Edit: and then don't do it again Honestly I'm not sure if it's all that straightforward. In most cases that hasn't nearly been enough to reintegrate said person into the QB community, whether or not they were a torrential jerk about it. I know that cheating is pretty much the ...

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Steven Hines wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_ad ... ranslation

Understand networking before you post mindless shit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating

Understand quizbowl before you act like mindless shit

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Seventh - Many of you would like for me to do a skype oral exam on a lederberg topic of your choosing. I will do this - on several agreements. The quizbowl community as a whole works together to stop the verbal abuse (or for matt's sake, potential verbal abuse) of my former teammates, friends, etc....

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HMS Audacious wrote:
Hidehiro Anto wrote:Are we relying on the honor system and assuming that no one will look at the quizbowl packet archive?
no, this is actually intended on being played under the assumption that people had seen the packets

See, you say that...

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Cody wrote:
merv1618 wrote:Was that the first .gif ever posted on the forums?
Among a billion others over the years, I posted a gif on the first page of this thread! viewtopic.php?f=63&t=15791#p280733

So you did.

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Was that the first .gif ever posted on the forums?

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I don't think it's technically errata, but I'd rephrase the Scarborough Fair tossup so that Girl from the North Country is mentioned before the lyrics used in it. Had we been in the finals I would have negged it hardcore with the Dylan title based on just those cited lyrics.

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Turner Island wrote:
Cheynem wrote:Why did Michael Coates only play "half a round"?
From what I understand, he had been staffing and finished his duties in time to sub in for the last half of the final between Panda Express and Chicago.

He powered the last TU to clinch it for Chicago, it was quite thrilling.

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Thanks to Billy and company for a splendidly run tournament and to the authors for by far one of the best sets I've played.

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:mystery theme

Meaning unspecified, or about movie mysteries?

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