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Could I see the tossup on the Balkan peninsula?

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Can I see the Cambodia tossup? 9. A political party in this country massacred people in a former high school called S-21, or Tuol Sleng, and overthrew Norodom Sihanouk [“sigh”-an-ouk]. That party was named after an ancient empire in this country, which was ruled by(*) Jayavarman [JAI-uh-var-man] II...

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Can I see the Cambodia tossup?

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Any idea when we'll see stats?

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Despite the lack of Master of the Universe Brandon Roach, DCC enjoyed this quite a bit. The only complaints I remember my team mentioning were the really steep difficiulty cliffs for art questions, and how it felt powers could have gone a but longer in a few cases (the only one I remember in particu...

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My knowledge of Great Zimbabwe comes entirely from a book of African history that my father took from the forgotten items from a fired employee's office in Kazan, also got a sweet Icon of Alexander Nevsky.

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I can serve as a sub if needed.

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If you'll have me, I'll do 10/10 or more of history and geography.

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MahoningQuizBowler wrote:The majority of responses I've heard for the final are for having it on Wednesday, so that's what's happening. In any of the finalists see this post, what is your preference for a time? 8 pm or 9?

Nine

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Unless we have a tournament that day, there should be some sort of DCC contingent here. Wether or not we go as a school or Something Ambiguous is yet to be determined.

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Whatever selects the next question in this really really doesn't like history.
EDIT: Also, establishing a vote to kick system would be great, because getting spammed by nefarious gnat is no fun

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On how the tournament is being run on NAQT, will there be math comp/will the rounds be timed? Also, will the play offs be a single elimination bracket as they have been in the past?

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I try to get more sleep than I usually do and before the first match drink large amounts of caffeine while listening to albums "American Idiot" or "Led Zeppelin IV"

Four the post-lunch lethargy, Five Hour Energy works wonders.

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Euler's Constant wrote:Am I missing something but are we playing this week?

We're playing tonight

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PastryBowl wrote:Can you elaborate on the sets we will be using? Also, how was Match One
for everyone?

The set we used last night was a hard college set. I think the scores of 80-70 and 85-45 reflect that. It ran smoothly, other than the fact that the set was waaaaaaaay too hard.

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Scaled Flowerpiercer wrote:I bit over a month after the end of this, is there any word on when Friday and Sunday's stats will be available?

Friday stats are already up

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Having spoken neither to Ryan and Connor about this, I can't say anything definitive about their degree of commitment to this project, but I will note that you picked two busy college students to edit this thing, neither of whom has extensive editing experience. In addition - I can vouch for the fa...

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I wish you all had approached me or any other member of the Penn team before putting our names on this set. On behalf of both myself and my teammates, I publicly disavow any association with this set besides cursory glances and occasional playtesting. I didn't really put your names on it (especiall...

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I'll second what Mike is saying. A lot of people are rightly skeptical of whether you can produce a good appropriate set. If this goes through, here are a few pointers. -I'm not optimistic that this set will be legible and grammatically coherent when there are several basic writing errors in the te...

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topics that a student would learn in an average AP class. This is not an appropriate difficulty metric for high school quizbowl. I guess what I mean to say is that nothing will be pushing into the "hey have you heard of this" field that sometimes gets put into. Nothing will be outside of ...

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I hate to be a dick here, but the information you are providing is somewhat inaccurate. Neither Ryan nor Connor wrote much of anything for HSAPQ and both left the organization very quickly last year. It is also unrealistic to use QUARK or MSU/UD as a judge for anything because neither set is finish...

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There have been severe quality concerns with previous DCCATs. For a lot of people, naming very inexperienced editors as supervising the project will not alleviate these fears. Do you plan playtesting/consultation with established members of the community at least? Yes. In all actuality the reason t...

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Edit: I misinterpreted my conversation with him. Sorry Joe.

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I am pleased to announce that DCCAT (Detroit Catholic Central Academic Tournament) is now in production and will be available for mirrors. Questions will be written by myself, Paul Hamilton, Brandon Roach, and Mark Karabajakian. The tournament will be edited by Ryan Dillon of U of M and Connor Teeve...

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From the perspective of a non-illinois person, I agree with what most people are saying here, except for Loyola. Granted, I haven't seen him play in a non-ace camp/ skypebowl setting without Nolan, but I think people (including himself) are underestimating Morgan. Morgan is a fantastic generalist, i...

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Obviously you'll still get a good field, but I know that a few of us were banking on this being a tournament really early in the year with a mini-nationals field. It's just pure selfishness for a chance to get chance to play Ladue, but obviously it's up to you guys.

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Although this is my first college tournament, and I can't really judge the quality, I really enjoyed this set. It was, to my high school brain, absolutely ridiculous at times, but I really enjoyed some of the more creative answer lines, especially the commodity tossups. I'm really interested to see ...

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I've always found note carding to be the best strategy. Try to find clues that come up multiple times especially, you'll find that they will continue to come up in whatever set you do for tryouts. You don't need to use notecards to become good at quiz bowl. That's just another form of rote memoriza...

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I've always found note carding to be the best strategy. Try to find clues that come up multiple times especially, you'll find that they will continue to come up in whatever set you do for tryouts.

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I'd like to play

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Golden-bellied Starfrontlet wrote:I'll play the first Expert one

I think you mean novice.
In all seriousness, sign me up.

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Yah is there anyway you can change the date back? I really would like to go to this, but I don't think I could see myself convincing the DCC coaches to go if Ladue can't go, who, acording to Ben Zhang, was interested in going to this. I know the date change also prevents, among others, Morgan Venkus...

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Can someone from MSHSAA clarify wether or not, after the date change, that this is still MSHSAA certified? Apparently there is a rule that doesn't allow teams to compete until the second Saturday in October.

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If we need a 10th, perhaps we can do something like a breakaway team of a couple people from other teams (like add a team of 2 or so, leaving a couple teams of 3). EDIT: What happened to that other DCC team that was rumored to exist? I couldn't get people interested, so the DCC team is just me and ...

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Horned Screamer wrote:
Merriam Webster's wrote:half-hazard

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haphazard

This is funny because I looked it up on google to see if I was spelling it right, and google didn't correct me. Thanks, however.

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Leucippe and Clitophon wrote:Is it possible for somebody to track down where the offending questions came from and make sure they are not from somebody still on the team?

This set was produced by juniors and seniors of the class of 2011. Everyone involved in the production of this set has already graduated.

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Let me start by saying that I was in no way affiliated with the making of this tournament, nor was anyone that is part of the DCC academic team this year. The way this tournament got put together was sort of haphazardly. A requirement to be on the DCC team is that everyone has to write a few questio...

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I can staff the film tournamen if it helps.

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So it looks like right now there are nine teams signed up for KABO. It would be nice if we could either get 8 (RR plus some sort of playoff or final on the last three packets) or 10 (RR plus a one game final between the top two teams), preferably 10 so that all the rounds can get used and seen by a...

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Where does one sign up for the Technology tournament, or is there no official sign up location?

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I'll be playing this with Paul Hamilton and some other DCC people who want to come. If any non- High School people who know sports want a team, we'd love to have to you, because I hardly know the difference between Soccer and Hockey.

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I don't think Chris is coming without me, so you can just drop our team.

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Thanks for doing this. It was a lot of fun, and I hope it gets run again.

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White Clouds anual tournament is on October 13th as well. It's on Michigan's west coast, so it's a good option for Indiana teams.

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Congratulations to DCC (Expert Divisions) and to Hanover (Standard Division) for their victories on Day 2 of the Ridgewood Summer Invitational. Runners up were Hunter A in the Expert (the DCC / Hunter match went to a tiebreak - Collin Parks powered a history question for the win) I didn't understan...

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Sheesh, this is like watching sharks eat things. On a non-Sunday related note. For Friday, packet submission was handled fairly poorly. I, unlike some, do think packet submission for high schoolers can work. However, all of them should have been play tested SOMEWHERE (hell, there's MORE than enough ...

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I know that my following statement is going to be criticized but... This was a summer tournament just for fun so having the packet isn't as big of a deal (realistically, no one will mirror this after Ryan's scathing review), and having the first writing experience be for a summer tournament before ...

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I know that my following statement is going to be criticized but... This was a summer tournament just for fun so having the packet isn't as big of a deal (realistically, no one will mirror this after Ryan's scathing review), and having the first writing experience be for a summer tournament before ...

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Thanks a lot for hosting this. I, and the whole DCC crew, had a lot of fun and this was worth the 11+ hour drive. Is it possible I could get a copy of the set from Friday.

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Due to the fact that I will be out of the country, I have to withdraw from this. I can still send in my 3/4 completed packet for things like tiebreakers.

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