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Eddie

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Eddie

Wastebin (and the entirety of doc-ent.com) appear to be down.

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Here's some typos and grammatical mistakes I found yesterday while reading the set. Round 1: TU 8: "The Wasteland" for "The Waste Land" Bonus 9: "this its patriotic song" for "its patriotic song" Round 2: TU 6: "This building was were Duccio's" for &...

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What happened to team "O Iblis, I long for what is not there"?

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Any updates on where the tournament is taking place, where we should park, when we should get there? It's starting at 9:00 AM 8:30 AM (so I guess get there up to half an hour early) at the Humanities and Social Sciences Building , which Google Maps is apparently calling the Patrick J. Ledden Audito...

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I think the appropriate knowledge can also be tested by saying something like "What is the new <value> if <parameters> is/are increased/decreased by a factor of <x>" rather having to have specific numbers calculated. I think this is a good idea. What about saying something like "Cons...

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I really didn't like this question. I know Beethoven's 7th somewhat well, and none of the clues were of any help until "1812 symphony." I find descriptions like "quarter-eighth-eighth-quarter-quarter" impossible to parse in real time, even though it is referring to an extremely ...

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I emailed Rob the Spongebob stuff yesterday, but in case he hasn't uploaded it yet, here's both the original Spongebob packet and a revised version I used at a local mirror yesterday.

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Lo! Verily, behold ye this tapestry, sprungeth forth from twenty minutes of bad photoshopping.

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What are some good books on the history of ancient Egypt, the history of the ancient Near East, or the history of ancient and classical Japan?

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Another thing that I like to do is to have one copy of the packet open in MS Word and have another open in Windows Explorer using the preview button. It's a bit more of a hassle since you have to Alt-Tab after every question, but some people prefer having a larger window so you can zoom in and make ...

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Here are the results for Spongebob. Congratulations to Tommy for getting almost every question on the first line. Tommy: 170 Will D.: 85 Eric B.: 50 Sean: 40 Dylan: 25 Joelle: 10 Amol: -30 EDIT: Also, could I please kindly request that there be no discussion of the content of this set yet? I want to...

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Might I recommend adding a sizeable discount for teams from new schools? New teams often have much smaller budgets to work with or are hesitant to spend money on an activity that they are unfamiliar with, so a new school discount can go a long way in encouraging teams to attend and growing both your...

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I have a Spongebob packet (currently at 17/12, but I can bring it up to at least 20/20) that I'd like to read for this. This is done. I have 44 tossups and 0 bonuses of 6 - 7 line tossups with no powermarks, covering Spongebob seasons 1 - 4 and the 2004 movie, and I can read as many or as little qu...

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I have a Spongebob packet (currently at 17/12, but I can bring it up to at least 20/20) that I'd like to read for this.

Eddie

I'm surprised you didn't include the bridge in the first exposition of the first movement of the 5th symphony, or even Mozart's horn stuff. I think that tossup didn't use Mozart because it was trying to go for a "horns in Beethoven's music" angle, like the Handel oboes and Schumann / Brah...

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There's a temporary download link over at this post.

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I noticed a small factual error in the "sixth symphonies" tossup (Round 1, TU 8) in the clue that reads: Though not by Beethoven, another symphony of this number opens with a trumpet call and ends with two or three hammer strikes, which the composer’s wife called the “hammer blows of fate....

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Arcadia A beat North Hollywood for first place. La Jolla A took third place over Rancho Bernardo A.

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Will there be a private subforum to discuss this set?

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- Hey, new writers, this was a wonderful experience. If this happens again, it's definitely worth it. As another padawan, I also thought this was a very helpful experience and I feel that I have improved as a writer. -Bonuses written by padawans I agree with this; I would have enjoyed the opportuni...

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I went ahead and cross-posted this to socalquizbowl.org and added it to the tournament schedule page there.

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Arcadia has agreed to move their IS tournament to ATLAS on February 21.

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crash bandicoot wrote:The third page of packet no. 8 is blank. Tossups 5 through 8 are missing.

It seems to work fine for me.

Eddie

Maybe hold off on posting to Wastebin before HSNCT. Just to be clear, I was asking about putting the tournament they wrote last year on Wastebin, not this tournament, so that people who don't know the writers could see examples of their previous work. You can find the Never Say Never packet at this...

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Is there a way to search for two separate strings in the same question, without searching for both strings together? For example, searching for "apples" and "oranges" but not necessarily "apples oranges."

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"Philosophy" is spelled as "Phylosophy" in the "Category" drop-down.

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If you look through this thread, there's a ton of (not all history-related) book recommendations.

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Could I see the question on Rear Window, I think it was?

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Yeah, this is really a problem.

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My biggest issue on this is that the 10-second bonus parts eat up A LOT of time on the clock, which could potentially swing a game. Going over to 10 seconds for all three parts would add at most 15 seconds per game. That could be compensated in part by having shorter, less wordy questions (or on av...

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Not strictly related, but I find it hilarious that the "Question Providers" PDF on the IESA Scholastic Bowl main page refers to NAQT as "National Association of Quizbowl Tournaments."

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It could just be both players and moderators getting tired as the day goes on, then (hopefully) getting a refreshing night of sleep before Sunday.

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geolawyerman wrote:November 9th or 19th? You said one, the title said the other.

I'm assuming 9 November since it's on Veteran's Day weekend.

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Is there a limit on how many questions you can bookmark/star/save?

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I said that the 2012 HSNCT was the single best set of questions I'd ever heard. I thought that this year's was just as good. I did think, though, that the questions got progressively more difficult, even during the prelims. I'd be interested in seeing the eventual data to see if this was a trend wi...

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Tammuz. I'm having mixed emotions towards this tossup. On one hand, it was really cool to see something like this tossed up because I had a chance to exercise the mythology I'd been studying recently. On the other hand, I'm almost positive this got converted in very few rooms, and in fact I waited ...

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5. This language’s formal second-person singular pronoun derives from an obsolete phrase meaning “your mercy,” and informal second-person plural conjugations can be changed to singular ones by removing a palatal semivowel ending. That plural pronoun is only regularly used in its mother country, vos...

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Mewto55555 wrote:I would assume Takashi Murakami, but I too could be mistaken.

Looks like you're right.

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10. One modern artist from this country often depicts mushrooms with cartoon eyes and fangs. Exhibits of this country’s art in Paris inspired the asymmetric design of Little Girl in a Blue Armchair and The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt and the décor of Whistler’s Peacock Room. One “floating world” ...

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10. One modern artist from this country often depicts mushrooms with cartoon eyes and fangs. Exhibits of this country’s art in Paris inspired the asymmetric design of Little Girl in a Blue Armchair and The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt and the décor of Whistler’s Peacock Room. One “floating world” ...

Eddie

Could I please see the Pokemon biology question?

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DoWon.Kim wrote:Shouldn't Arcadia and NoHo be included in the Nationals Division?

On that same note, Rancho Bernardo and Francis Parker should have at least one Division I team since they're both going to HSNCT.

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Is there a question distribution available?

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The _Mammalia_ or _mammal_s tossup started off with "This class's members", so any neg with a classification too specific or not specific enough was not the question's fault. I guess what I meant to say was that a lot of negs probably came from middle schoolers who didn't know the differe...

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So both this page and this page list 2012-2013 stat adjustments and share sets in common, but all the numbers are different. I'm guessing the March one is an updated version that takes into account more recent stats?

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I wrote the tossup on _mammal_s, which, despite being answered correctly by 31/34 of rooms, was also negged by 17 teams. I'm guessing a lot of these negs were buzzes on things such as "primates" or "chordates" or some other classification either too specific or not specific enoug...

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I'm curious, is "Zhongguo" just some sort of hidden portion of the answer line, or is there like an algorithm that identifies common alternative answers?

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The ranking uses PPB, so it should be irrelevant of whether or not there's tough competition in an area.

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