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Masked Canadian History Bandit

I would like to thank Ben Smith for running a great tournament that was in line with the excellence we have come to expect from the ONQBA. I like to also thank all the great moderators and staffers that I got to work with, and to all the teams both near and far, for coming to the tournament. This i...

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To my understanding, we have at least 8 rooms available on Monday - the staff suites. This means I'm going to cap the field at 14 teams for now (7 rooms + 1 control room) until I know for sure that more rooms are available. I'm going to set a target time of having this tournament done by 2PM on Mem...

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http://quizbowlpodcast.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/up-late-with-eric-xu-podcast-3/ Podcast #3 is up! This iteration features talk about studying techniques for various subjects after the regional review, be sure to check it out! ' Would be nice to see further breakdowns in the tracklist for the 20 min...

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Why are fees so much lower? I would guess that initially, a lower fee was the only way to attract a lot of teams that were used to having their school pay their Reach entry fees for regional competitions in advance. It seems to have stuck. Sorry if I sounded harsh, but after all these years of them...

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Matt Jackson and Ben Smith make good points. The worst thing that could happen is that this is launched prematurely and it doesn't get repeated in the future, so I really don't see this happening for at least 2-3 years. The circuit has plenty of room to grow and that growth must happen before a Cana...

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Ted, I believe your concern is being raised because you spent most of the season thinking Colonel By didn’t pay the entry fee, only to discover recently that the administrators did. If the money was spent, it’s not being (easily) refunded, so you may as well field a team. Take a pass on provincials...

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Canadian provinces (Reach for the Top provincials) How exactly will this work, and will the competitors at these events be aware of the potential for HSNCT qualification? Historically, we have not actively recruited these teams (both because Reach provincials are late in the season when there is li...

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If you balance teams, you have a higher chance of qualifying more than one team for nationals. Of course this also reduces the chance of qualifying a single team for nationals, but if that's the case, you probably shouldn't be splitting your best players to try and qualify more teams.

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Prussian troops in the Netherlands were withdrawn after coalition defeats at the hands of Pichegru over the winter of 1794-95. The whole point of the Treaty of Basel was that the Prussian interests in supporting the coalition were thwarted by the French invasion of the Netherlands, and wanted to fo...

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5. Sir Robert Holmes’ largely ineffectual raid on a Smyrna convoy was a prelude to one of these campaigns. The Mechelen Incident delayed a different instance of this action by several months, and that campaign was betrayed by Colonel Hans Oster. Prussia signed the Treaty of Basel, taking itself out...

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5. Sir Robert Holmes’ largely ineffectual raid on a Smyrna convoy was a prelude to one of these campaigns. The Mechelen Incident delayed a different instance of this action by several months, and that campaign was betrayed by Colonel Hans Oster. Prussia signed the Treaty of Basel, taking itself out...

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Stats are up, courtesy of Penn's own Max Isenberg. Any corrections sent in by PM to me within a week will be made. Prelims: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2164/stats/prelims/ Playoff-only games: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2164/stats/playoffs/ All games: http://www.hsquizbowl....

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Prelim stats are up at the link above, UVA is 7-0, Penn, Yale, UMD A are 5-2.

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Courtesy of Penn's own Max Isenberg, these are the stats before breaking for lunch after Round 5: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

UVA A is 5-0, and Penn, Yale, Maryland A are al 4-1.

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Patrick, Just a friendly reminder to please complete the stats and post them when you get a chance. Thanks! Ron McColl Phoenixville Academic Team Coach Sorry if I'm wrong, but doesn't it appear as if the stats are already there? I updated all the stats (2 missing scoresheets, playoff divisions, sta...

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Stats are up. Two scoresheets still have to be entered and playoff divisions have to be made, so those will be done together on Monday night. I'm sorry about this delay. Prelims: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2116/stats/prelims/ Full: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2116/stats/fu...

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This tournament happened and Charter A beat High Tech A in a one-game final by five points. State College A came third after losing a one-game tiebreaker against Charter A to determine who would face High Tech A in the finals. I believe we (Charter B) tied State College A for third...since we finis...

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This tournament happened and Charter A beat High Tech A in a one-game final by five points. State College A came third after losing a one-game tiebreaker against Charter A to determine who would face High Tech A in the finals. Due to some technical difficulties, stats will only be up by Monday night...

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Mr. Joyboy wrote: For us based elections check out daily kos elections.

The Daily Kos is known for a strong left-wing bias. I would avoid it in favour of more centrist sources.

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I will be playing this with Angela Li from Penn. We'll be Penn Eh and we'll have our pack in by the deadline on the 19th. Any players who want to join us should message me.

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Colonel By will be sending precisely one team to this. Is the discount determined by every 200 km or 200 miles? Would just like to verify this as this changes the numbers (and discounts) by quite a bit. Also, are a set of 8 BuzzBox buzzers + a laptop eligible for a buzzer system discount? We'll als...

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I tried out some packets earlier and it seemed like each time you inputed points for a question, the packet would jump to the top of the other section, not the one last read (i.e. input a tossup, it goes to the top of the bonuses page and vice versa). Obviously this is an annoying problem if you're ...

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Will there be discounts for teams submitting packets when they don't need to?

Masked Canadian History Bandit · Re: Ottawa Hybrid Tournament-March 8, 2014 Who is editing this tournament?

Who is editing this tournament?

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zachary_yan wrote:Title says all. Have their been any methods developed of converting a teams numerical performance on an IS set to say a SCT set?

Fred Morlan's rankings does this type of comparison, but it's only for bonus conversion.

http://hsqbrank.com/stat-adjustments-for-2013-2013/
http://hsqbrank.com/faq/

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pandabear555 wrote:
adosreme wrote:
During lunch, there will be an exhibition match of people that Aayush hates vs. Aayush and Dennis Beeby.
Unfortunately, McGill will not be coming. I was looking forward to playing in that game, though.

But on which side?

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Cheynem wrote:Did you have to say "ultimatum" in the WWI tossup?

Yes. I've added prompts on "demand", "telegram", but it's overwhelming referred to as an ultimatum. Did this trip people up?

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Also, from my understanding, banzai charges were not used at Peleliu (as you mentioned) or Okinawa, and one was only made at the end of the battle at Tarawa. EDIT: I just played the pike/caracole/Scotland bonus, which was exactly what I was talking about. Props for that. I edited the Iwo Jima quest...

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I think we heard three bonuses on World War I poetry, for instance. There was a bonus on Wilfred Owen and one on WWI poetry in general, so there were two such bonuses There was also a Paul Fussell bonus, I think? The Paul Fussell bonus was in Other and the parts dealt with: his literary and social ...

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The "secret pass of Thermopylae" tossup was egregious on this. As I mentioned in the other thread, this was changed for future mirrors. I agree with you about the Yazoo Land Fraud, Edward Teller, and the Carter-Reagan debate (not unimportant but debate tossups imo rely on exceedingly triv...

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Ringil wrote:Maybe it's been changed, but I just was glancing over the questions and Tang Taizong was clearly not the person to grant Song Jiang and his buddies amnesty, given that Water Margin was set in the SONG dynasty.

This was fixed for mirrors this weekend.

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fourplustwo wrote:Better idea: stop making excuses and write a packet if you want to play.

In this specific case, no one should have any sympathy because it's been common knowledge on the Ontario circuit since at least May that Fall was going to happen at Mac.

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I've gotten an email about misspelt names in the stats (they were all done based on what I think was written on the rosters). If I messed up your name in the stats (or your actual stats in the stats), feel free to PM or email me and I'll fix them tonight.

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I really like the idea of using legit military history clues on military history questions, but the problem is that these clues often aren't uniquely identifying (with some exceptions, like the very famous double envelopment at Cannae). Consider the following: The defense-in-depth strategy of Kurib...

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Parthia/Crassus/Surena, where there's no medium part in sight. That's my fault, that was originally written as a tossup and it had to be hastily converted on the last day since it was actually supposed to be a bonus. It's been fixed for future mirrors. Edward Teller - Was this science or history? E...

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Stats that only include games that counted for final standings can be found here if anyone cares: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

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I wrote and edited 2/3 of the history (almost all the European history, half of the World, and some American), all the Geo/CE/Academic Other, and a 1/3 of of the myth (mainly Greco-Roman). I also wrote one or two questions in each of World/Other Lit, Painting, Other FA, Philosophy,and SS).

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Stats for all games: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1861/stats/all_games/ Play-off only stats will be up either later tonight or tomorrow. Feel free to PM me with stat corrections. UVA convincingly cleared the field. Columbia A came second with two losses. Maryland B and LASA A each ended ...

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Preliminary stats are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

Top two teams from each bracket make top bracket and so on.

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Packets for this have been sent out to the mirror sites. If you haven't received them please email me ASAP at this account's linked email. Have fun!

Masked Canadian History Bandit

Assuming that Jacob's claim that "a lot of Russian scholars" "[refer] to a lot of tsars by their first and middle names" is true (I don't know whether or not it is), this seems reason enough to accept Russian patronymics or whatever. As long as they're uniquely identifying, of c...

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What about first and middle names for tsars? My professor for Russian history referred to a lot of tsars by their first and middle names, as do a lot of Russian scholars. (so, for example, anytime I've written on Ivan the Terrible, I say to accept Ivan Vasilyevich; is this wrong?) The patronymic is...

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Does this mean that the other title supposed to be (though never actually) awarded at HSNCT will also be split off into its own tournament?

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theMoMA wrote:For what it's worth, I'd definitely be okay with Waterloo hosting on Sunday if that would allow them to attend MFT (and they actually want to attend MFT).

Waterloo is already registered to play MFT and Penn Bowl on the 26-27 weekend.

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I'm not sure why QuAC V isn't showing up in Matt's link, but the University of Pennsylvania is hosting a tournament using HSAPQ 42 on 5 Oct.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1605/

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RyuAqua wrote:
jonpin wrote:For 1 point, Name the only nation that borders both China and Russia.
A world without Kazakhstan is a world I don't want to live in anymore.

But no North Korea! What a tradeoff!

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What about first and middle names for tsars? My professor for Russian history referred to a lot of tsars by their first and middle names, as do a lot of Russian scholars. (so, for example, anytime I've written on Ivan the Terrible, I say to accept Ivan Vasilyevich; is this wrong>) IMHO, this should...

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This does seem to be a consistency problem with readers, especially at smaller tournaments. Reading through this article has definitely made sure I won't be making particular mistakes, although I was already making a personal list of what not to do after having gone through all of these. Another pr...

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Tale of Mac Datho's Pachycephalosaur wrote:Am I to understand that there is no Eastern Canada site? Are there sites that have bid?

I've heard through the grapevine that it will be at Macmaster.

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fourplustwo wrote:Alberta will send two teams to this.

And those two teams will hopefully stay for Penn Bowl (to be announced).

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