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Nice hockey Cote d'Azur wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:23 am Please discuss specific questions or request to see questions here, with your reason for requesting them.

(doing this generally helps promote discussion in threads such as these, avoiding degeneration into a stream of contextless requests for, and texts of, questions)

On a similar topic, is bonus stalling allowed? As in, waiting to answer the bonus until asked by the moderator to prevent a comeback from the other team. Yes, it is the best strategy in a situation when you're playing timed rounds. Waiting until you're prompted by the moderator and then deferring o...

Hey folks -- I am still looking to play this, and will gladly be placed on a free agent team if necessary, but if anyone would like to team up, I co-wrote CO Trash in 2014, Don't let him fool you. This misrepresentation won't stand. It was 2013 CO Trash. forgetting what years tournaments happened i...

I'd like some clarification with regard to the eligibility rules. Specifically: High schoolers may play, and can play on chimera teams with permission, but permission will only be granted if they are unable to play with their school team. Can the editors provide an example of an instance in which a...

Shocked that there are no comments yet! This, like its predecessors, was a delight to play and consistently hit on stuff that's hard to ask a lot of in normal tournaments in a very interesting way. Thanks for writing it!

As is my wont, it's inexplicably taken me several days to post the stats from the mirror of this we ran at the UMN NASAT site. Just like at the main site, we did one seeding round, then 7 rounds of promotion/relegation with only points scored in the top room counting towards the actual title. Here a...

Progcon wrote:Wakefield and Niekro are easily among the most notable knuckleball-pitchers of recent history. This is a very reasonable bonus for this difficulty IMO.

The second sentence here does not follow from the first.

We could also just combine teams into whatever numbers work. Not really a big deal if some side events end up 5-on-5, if that's the most convenient way to allow everyone to play.

I heartily endorse this event or product.

I'll have a little more detail when I get home from dinner, but thanks to everyone, players and staffers alike, for coming out! PLEASE DO NOT PUBLICLY REVEAL SET CONTENT. Thanks!

Hello friends, it's my fourth-favorite CO Trash tradition: announcing the next tournament after the writing, but before the running, of the current one. We're barging our way into the Sunday of CO/EO(/MO???) weekend of 2020/21 to run this again, having found that trading summer trash years with Erik...

Cheynem wrote:how did last year's CO Trash go anyway HMM

dang it

Seems like a good time to note that we are definitely seeking staff for this tournament! You will be treated, we think, uncommonly well: last time we provided staffers a variety of drinks, snacks, and cough drops, and we also ordered Thai for lunch. We'll be trying to improve on that this year, so p...

agov01 wrote:In round 1, the tossup on iron said that galena was composed of iron and sulfur although it is made of lead and sulfur.

Man, it sure is. That will be corrected in the packets.

Symphony of Psalms and Chichester Psalms are by far the most famous works written on the Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Matthew_Passion (this doesn't mean the question isn't maybe a little more guessable than ideal, but (1) it certainly does take some knowledge to make that leap and (2) the...

Much like the main event, this tournament will be taking place at Northwestern University. More information will be provided as we acquire it.

In a turn of events nearly as unprecedented as a 100-72 final score, both teams chose to play for the Bounceback Foundation , which thus received a $500 donation from PACE. Thanks for looking out for each other, kids. To anticipate and answer your questions, discussion threads and the set itself sho...

I really appreciate this post.

This set continued its predecessor's tradition of excellence--it was a delight to play! Thanks for writing and running it!

Would it be possible to hold off on starting this until after the staff tournament? That event should be pretty short (3-4 all-tossup rounds, I think?) and there's a decent number of people who would like to do both.

ninjernacci wrote:Can I request a content warning on this thread (either from the admins or from the creator), or at least on the OP? I feel like this thread is dealing with things that are 100% not good for some people to see.

Seems reasonable; I've added one.

And for what it's worth, maybe instead of continuing to fixate on this whisper network we could actually be coming up with solutions. We could come up with a way to report these things? There's a lot of blasting here with no way to fix any of this. So let's get out shit together and come up with a ...

The staff has decided to reopen this thread for discussion. Due to the sensitive nature of the subject at hand, it will be moderated more strictly than most. Please do not make flippant or unserious posts, as this is neither the time or place. Speculation regarding the identity of any alleged victim...

First of all, congrats to Shiva/Pi-oneers on an outstanding and historic performance. (After the final, Jeff Hoppes said he thinks this is the first time a solo player has ever won a team-based NAQT national championship, at any level, and I'd imagine the same is probably true of NSC and ACF Nation...

Yeah, the ranking system worked pretty well last year, provided you can set up the form and read the results properly.

Progcon wrote:Will this be mirrored online at some point? I can't make it to Chicago this year.

Almost certainly.

Yeah, I believe I've collected all the payments now so money should be on its way to you shortly.

heterodyne wrote:
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) wrote:I think it's very strange that the best Canadian quizbowl player in history is at his peak and you guys come up with rules to exclude him.
wait I thought he graduated after last year

yeah, not currently a student, seems straightforward even in the crazy mixed-up land of Canada

To pay, you can either give me $5 cash or venmo me @ukonvasara.

Hello all:

Please be in Charles De Gaulle at 7:30. The field will be capped at eight teams, which I am happy to wantonly add people to as necessary. I will have a schedule ready then.

AKKOLADE wrote:double secret probation, cool kid-only open teams

What does this mean, in terms that other people can understand and act on?

This is just an announcement that this set is not clear yet; there will be a HS coach and player hybrid mirror in Texas on 4/13. The set will be posted on the archive shortly after. While I wait for ownership of the hsqb entry for CMST to be transferred to me, PDF copies of the packets can be found...

AKKOLADE wrote:The Jam The Eton Rifles

Okay, now this whole exercise is illegitimate.

Amizda Calyx wrote:I personally feel that books written for laypeople should NOT appear in science questions, and especially not *multiple* books.

Why not?

I am really unhappy with how some people in the collegiate/open community act towards each other, especially on the forums and sometimes on the Discord. After several instances of privately getting people to modulate their public behavior-–sometimes successfully–I’m finally pissed--off about it eno...

The tournament would not have been possible without the efforts of Sarah Angelo, Eliza Grames, and Bernadette Spencer on the planning side, and without Sarah, Eliza, Ryan Rosenberg, and Rob Carson's great logistical work during the tournament. Gautam Kandlikar, as always, deserves thanks for taking...

Also, if you're driving, the Hayward lot is closed; MIT recommends parking along Memorial Drive instead.

Please note that the team meeting has been moved from 10-250 to the nearby 26-100. Thanks, and apologies for the late notice.

...more consistency across formats will be good for the game long-term as it creates less of a shock for newer players shifting formats...longer games may lower retention rates for beginner level players...shorter, quicker [games] will help the game expand long-term. I don't want to speak for "...

Hey, any update on the timing of the HSNCT site?

David Frazee sent me a box of old quizbowl stuff. One of the more interesting things was a program from 1995 ACF Nationals, featuring some artwork; a combination welcome and birth announcement from Don Windham and Carol Guthrie; information on participating teams (including messages), officials, an...

feel free to use this thread for unparseable jokes about pop scientists or cracker barrels or whatever. no inscrutably ironic/unironic/ironic classism please

Who will win? Who will not win? Post your thoughts below!

EDIT: or above, thanks a ton forums software

DOUBLE EDIT: jokes are okay, just try to use this thread for something resembling an actual prediction about either of the national tournaments.

jonpin wrote:You mean that Bowling for Soup song was a cover?

yes

Speaking of which, when was the last time ACF brought on new people? Genuinely wondering because I don't know. It would seem to me that an organization that has had to defend itself under the premise that their members have real jobs would benefit from bringing on enthusiastic college students who ...

5. In one game released for this system, the bandit Kurai tries to escape prison to reunite with Akara. Besides that game, Dying Eyes, other RPGs for this system include Reign of Legends and Desolate. One game that achieved its greatest popularity on this system displays messages such as "PIGS...

Cheynem wrote:you dog where da other stats at

Will has the Scattergories stats; I'll put up the ACRONYM stats tomorrow.

Thanks so much to everyone for coming out here; it was great to see a field like this at a Minnesota event, and I hope to see and take part in more similar events in the future.

Note that while the field is closed to new teams, there are still three spots available for potential free agents!

Gotten enough feedback re: starting earlier that I've bumped times up by half an hour. I appreciate your flexibility though!

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