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I'm trying to set my UofM orientation around a wednesday so I can attend this. Hopefully they'll let me skip an evening activity or something for it. Awesome! If I remember correctly, most of the activities near the evening are not mandatory, but you should try to attend anyway (don't want you to m...

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Michigan is planning a house-write for sometime in October. Details will be announced shortly...I think.

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Michigan Academic Competitions will host weekly, open summer practices starting May 9th. Practices will tentatively be from 7:30 to 9:30 on Wednesdays in room 4002 of the Michigan Union (located here: http://g.co/maps/qdt6n). If you are visiting the University of Michigan or happen to be in the area...

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I'm not sure how much pull this will have, but I could serve as a chaperone to any potential Michigan NASAT team (not sure if I could actually transport a team, though). There should be some contingent of U of M players going down to staff this, so we could help chaperone as well. So I would be mor...

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Consider the following situation: Team A is playing a timed NAQT match against Team B. Team A is down by 35 points after answering tossup 19 with only 10 seconds left in the game. If the clock runs out during the next bonus, Team A can't win (obviously) even if they get 30 points on the bonus. The c...

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Cheynem wrote:"Doctor Droge" sounds like a good DC villain.

With his evil sidekick N00b Zeng.

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Kurtis recently got accepted in to a PhD program at Michigan.

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My top bracket (in no particular order): Yale, UVA, Brown, Michigan, Chicago, Minnesota, Chicago, Maryland. SHEER NOOBERY Chicago is just THAT good. But Harvard should be in there somewhere. MSU - Joe, Connor, and Chris play very well together and were very impressive at SCT. This team knows a grea...

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My top bracket (in no particular order): Yale, UVA, Brown, Michigan, Chicago, Minnesota, Chicago, Maryland. Sleepers: UCSD, Illinois, OSU. Since no one is mentioning D2, I might as well say a few things about some of the teams coming out of the Midwest: MSU - Joe, Connor, and Chris play very well to...

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We currently have five people going. I think we would like to split into two teams, but if that does not work well with the schedule then we can keep it at one team.

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Can we get a field update? We are probably just bringing one team.

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A teammate once first-lined "Whitehorse" because the tossup mentioned her grandfather. (Plus if I remember these forums right, Ted Gioia has accomplished similar.) This reminds me of something similar. I have gotten many tossups on the UAW because my high school quizbowl coach's grandfath...

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I've gotten two tossups on Prague because I've been to Prague. Yeah, definitely going to places helps. I remember getting a tossup on Fallingwater at PACE NSC after visiting it the day before on the drive down to Fairfax. This also really helps when playing visual tournaments such as Eyes that Do N...

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In Texas, we moderators had a long discussion about the antiprompts. For example, in the two treatises of government tossup there was an instruction to antiprompt players who buzzed with the answer "second treatise of government". To me, such an answer seems like it should just be wrong s...

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Michigan is interested in attending with 1-3 teams and can bring 3 buzzers.

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Before May 12, we have a full schedule of tournaments. Once we get to May 12, more and more teams have left school for the year or started taking final exams, making packet submission and last-minute question wrangling chatoic. After May 12, HSNCT, NSC, and NASAT all come up quickly as things that ...

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This was really well run. Thanks for hosting!

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Some Michigan guys might be able to stick around on Saturday

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More info on our TERP 2 mirror: -Currently we don't have a lot of moderators for this. In fact, the only confirmed moderator is myself. I will try to rope some Michigan players into reading, but given that this thing is tomorrow, I doubt I will find enough moderators to host a considerable field. Be...

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Sorry for the late announcement, but we will be mirroring TERP 2 after this tournament is done. Sign up will be the day of and the field is limited to how many moderators we can get together.

TERP 2 information here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 19&t=12154

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I'll have to talk to some other people, but Michigan would probably not stick around for this

. Is there a way we can do some sort of half-tournament immediately following BARGE? I think this would allow more people to play without delaying their trips back too much.

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Papa's in the House wrote:I've added Michigan to the field since they've submitted (or are going to submit) packets. I hope to see several more teams join up in the next couple of weeks.

We might bring another team. Details forthcoming.

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Michigan is interested in this and also the trash tournament. Details forthcoming.

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I thought this was a fantastic tournament. This was the first time I got to play it with a decent amount of people, so I had a ton of fun. Congratulations to Doug; he is beast at this format.

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I wish there was more film in the tournament. Yeah, that was my fault again. Definitely could have put a bonus or two in the set. Also sort of weird was the presence of both art and history questions on George Washington, although obviously I haven't been around long enough to know if there's any p...

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I edited the fine arts for this tournament. In case I don't respond to your specific question(s), please email me at bryanbe AT umich DOT edu. I know there were a few repeats in my category. In particular, I'd like to apologize for the two sculpture bonuses that were almost identical. This was compl...

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Thanks for hosting this! This ran very smoothly and quickly even though there were tiebreaker games after lunch.

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To all mirrors:

Please make out checks to "Bryan Berend" and send them to the following address:

1022 S. Forest, Apt. 4
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

The mirror fee is $30 per team.

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Michigan might be sending 1-2 teams, and possibly a moderator. Details forthcoming.

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Final stats: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/78/stats/final/

I want to thank everyone who came to this tournament and helped make it a success. There is a discussion thread, so please join that if you would like to make any specific comments about the set.

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Stats through round 5: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... h_round_5/

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jdd2007 wrote:Several Ohio State people want to play basketball after the tournament. Is that going to happen at all?

There is a court by our house, and it is supposed to be very nice tomorrow. We don't have a ball though. If someone with a car wants to drive me to a store, then we can play.

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Sorry to do this, but we won't be able to bring any of our buzzers. We accidentally left them in a car which is now in Indianapolis.

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We are probably going to bring 2 teams to this. If we expand to a third team, I will post here late tonight or tomorrow.

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Pretty sure Kurtis has a frisbee, but if people want to play basketball they need to bring a ball. Otherwise someone is driving me to the store to get one.

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Would anyone be interested in basketball or ultimate frisbee the Friday before or the evening after this (weather permitting)? There is a basketball court and a large field near Kurtis, Libo, and my house.

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The West Coast mirror has been announced (link: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12096). Also, McMaster has is planning on hosting as well.

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Ondes Martenot wrote:Is the Harvard mirror on the 1st or 8th?

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Harvard gets the Northeast mirror. Announcement will be posted shortly.

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Claremont College has expressed interest hosting this in the West Coast region. Also, both NYU and Harvard have expressed interest in hosting this in the Northeast. More details to come.

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Guess I'm late to the party, as you guys pretty much covered everything! We will be announcing Autumn Classic as soon as school gets started. There is also discount for new teams!

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Michigan should bring 1-3 teams to this. We can also bring 3 buzzers.

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The Alabama mirror has been cancelled due the proximity of the Georgia Tech. mirror. Allowing both schools to host was primarily my fault as I did not realize the two campuses are only about a 3 hour drive away from each other.

Sorry for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused.

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Georgia Tech and Alabama have both expressed interest hosting this tournament. Also, Manchester may using some of the rounds for a quarter-type format. We are still looking for a mirror in the northeast, west coast, and Canada, so if you are interested please shoot me an email at bryanbe AT umich DO...

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Stat corrections have been made. If there are any other ones, please let me know.

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Thanks to everyone who showed and played. Sorry for all the general confusion and uncertainty when planning this tournament, but I think it ran pretty smoothly.

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Last update: We now have 10 teams thanks to the addition of a DCC house team. We will run a 10 team RR (9 games), followed by a re-bracket into an upper division of 4 teams, a middle bracket of 4 teams, and a lower bracket of 2 teams (sorry lower bracket). Ties will be split by PPB. We then RR in th...

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saintanthony wrote:The Wells/Scheeler team is actually full. I haven't heard from Joe in a few days but he sent me a (since-deleted) text with the names of two other players.

Ok thanks. Well now we are either stuck with option A (9 team RR with byes), or I could try to scrap some more DCC players into playing.

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Hello all, The tournament is in two days. We currently have the following teams: 1) Matt Lafer, Ryan Westbrook, Jacob Durst, Michael Hausinger 2) Jarret Greene, Jasper Lee, Saajid Moyen, Ashvin Srivatsa 3) Mike Cheyne, Auroni Gupta, Kurtis Droge, Matt Hayes 4) Siddhant Dogra, John Bernabei, Neil Gur...

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It seems like 8 teams with a full RR and then a rebracket into upper/lower halves is better than 9 teams with a full RR and a bye, so if Olmstead Falls isn't coming, combining the two teams of two would still probably be a good idea. This is assuming we don't get kicked out at 5 PM. I'm optimistic ...

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