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I'd highly recommend reducing the amount of social science if you plan on writing a set that is accessible to more than the top five teams in the country. Writing social science at a high school level is incredibly difficult, and you should take into account the possible reduction in question and s...

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I'd highly recommend reducing the amount of social science if you plan on writing a set that is accessible to more than the top five teams in the country. Writing social science at a high school level is incredibly difficult, and you should take into account the possible reduction in question and se...

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Ukonvasara wrote:In the abstract I'm fine with bonuses because they're amusing to play, but I think the overriding concern is trying to fit more events into Sunday, so I'd prefer it lack them.

Also, the lack of bonuses means more wacky tossups, which I am all for.

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Max Schindler - comedy gold.

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Cheynem wrote:I might like to write a packet of this if anyone's interested in collaborating.

I would be.

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tofutoaster wrote:I am well aware of the NAC' s poor quality and non-pyramidal tossups. However, I plan on attending NAC next year to win the prize money. Does anyone have tips on how to adjust from regular tossups to the ones QU provides?

No,

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Stats will be posted as soon as I have all the files in my possession. Thanks to everybody who helped staff this event. I have heard from multiple sources that Blake, Bruce Arthur's non-quizbowl playing friend, was threatened during the first round by a member of Matt Weiner's team after that playe...

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Some teams are still planning on continuing this in the morning. If you want to keep playing, show up in room 1232 at 10:00. NO DON'T If you guys want, we have Tall Oaks, North Point, and Hunters Woods down on the second floor of the hotel until 5pm tomorrow. That probably would work better for act...

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I would like to thank Michael Arnold, a man with an enemies list the length of his arm, a scornful attitude toward high school quizbowl, and a perceptive and merciless critic of those around him. Despite (or because of) all of that, it was in large part his delightful personality and company that w...

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I'd be interested in playing a Bay Area mirror of this tournament. And if people were flying out for a West Coast tournament I've always wanted to have a big quizbowl party at my dad's house on a hill in the wine country if people wanted to come out a day early. I am intrigued by your ideas and wis...

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Abid/Lloyd posted two random responses from the list I sent them, here is the full list / I know you won't believe these either but at least you have the full selection. If you truly knew science as well as your statline claims, you would know that these statements are falsifiable and not about bel...

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The polynomial tossup in packet 8 says monic in the middle, still in power, which seems suboptimal since I think it makes it really easy for someone to just go and guess polynomial. I also thought the alcohol tossup from packet 5 was pretty fraudable since it suggests pretty early that it's some ki...

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Inkana7 wrote:I'll be out of school/quizbowl for at least next year, but there's a high probability that I'm in grad school somewhere by 2016.

Come to Minnesota. We have beer.

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MY GOD. It's one question. You played the set. Was the history just geography bowl? I concede the question wasn't the greatest. If that's so, I don't see why the question flaw in mind needed to be defended as an intentional design choice instead fixed for future mirrors (the vast majority of places...

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My small complaint about the Two Treatises question is that I recognized it was the Two Treatises, but had no idea it wanted one or the other--I proceeded to guess, wrongly. If I'd known it was looking for one or the other, I wouldn't have buzzed, because I knew I didn't know. I don't see a non-tra...

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This post is excellent. The boards is first and foremost "a place for serious, productive discussion and promotion of quizbowl", and staff have every right to limit certain activities to make that possible.

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Connie is exactly right here. Contributing to the boards should never be a proxy for actual work towards better quizbowl; nor should the technological separation allow us to forget that we are here because of an activity that takes place in real life . While participation on the boards may not be ma...

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I am disappointed by the lack of "It Tastes Like Chicken".

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Joe Hansen may want to play with us. Will update when positive.

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Mewto55555 wrote:Thus Spoke Zarathustra twice in the finals (though music, phil, so whatever)

We'll be sure to budget more time for finding (and actually fixing these things) in the future, now that we know that QEMS has a terrible habit of placing the two questions on similar things in the same packet!

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Muriel Axon wrote:Would there be any interest in a philosophy packet of difficult, oddballish questions? I'm not sure if I can work up the motivation to write it, but I'd first like to know if anyone would want to play it.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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That tossup on "objects", though, was pretty stupid - did the Meinong clue really rule out "descriptions" or "things," and did the Kripke clue rule out "referents"? I, too, wonder if the clues sufficiently referred to "objects". Certainly was confus...

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Yeah, Matt, I agree that the moderation tossup was quite bad. It was written on a whim and never really quite worked. I have another extra philosophy tossup that is far less terrible, so it will be replaced. My philosophy instructor for N Ethics was quite the opposite of yours, apparently. He argued...

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Plan Rubber wrote:If this is morphing into the matchmaking thread, I'm going and would like teammates.

Same here.

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I posted a correction about the lack of culpability from the rest of the Harvard players on the Atlantic article as soon as I saw it (it's under my real name so you can verify it, despite my apparent "hatred" of Harvard or whatever). You can all make sure people know the real story by com...

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I also checked out this podcast...does the state of Minnesota have some sort of apologetic complex about vacated sports victories, or is it just this guy? He seems so awed that this time Minnesota wasn't the one giving up victories. I've personally never even heard of the opposite case. I was also ...

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Sulawesi Myzomela wrote:The Boston Globe has published a confusing and poorly written article on the matter

Futher complicated by the fact that nobody bothered to discover, and subsequently explain, what college quizbowl actually is.

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cdcarter wrote:So fuck you, for ruining that for them. And fuck you for pretending you care.

Pretty much.

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I will also admit that his negligent misstatements and conduct as to matters of quizbowl are believable, even for me. Yes, my brother is more dear to me than most things on this earth. However, your post does not make me feel hate. What I feel is a profound sense of despair in knowing that an intel...

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Just wanted to chime in and say I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by the Agamben leadin.

Also, I appreciated the bonus on fecal transplants.

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Despite my hatred for economics, I highly endorse this.

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Horned Screamer wrote:You can't beat free. I would like to be on a free team.

hey, yeah, this. I like free.

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I will probably be going to this.

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So I'm not sure if anyone has the resources or willpower to write a full fledged tournament for August, bu I'm wondering if it would be at least feasible for like a day/weekend of various side events, potentially combined with like guerrilla academic/trash events. I think Will's tech tournament and...

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Too bad the article just kind of ended rather than go anywhere. I was expecting at least some lament that there weren't corporate sponsors lining up to endow teams with cash. He could've easily tied in the conflicts within quizbowl to the larger question of the purpose of higher education and learn...

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Tokyo Sex Whale wrote:I am playtesting philosophy tonight. If you were there last time, you should know how to be there. If you want to come tonight but didn't come Tuesday, email me.

how late do you plan on doing this?

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Here is an odd thought. This is a dilemma that I'm sure has plagued many a religion player: the dreaded "Ezra or Nehemiah?" internal debate. Do/should Ezra or Nehemiah questions ever accept an answer of "Ezra-Nehemiah"? Wiki suggests this is A Thing and as the tossup indicates, ...

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vcuEvan wrote:I agree with Andrew. This thread is complaining about a problem that doesn't even exist. Read more questions.

Hear hear, especially the point that Hinduism never comes up as religion.

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Cheynem wrote:I would like to see more questions on serial killers.

Honestly, yes.

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Now's your chance to pay me back for the lack of econ in MO. I'll probably attend this.

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Oops, my bad (again). EDIT: I have a feeling I could reply again and we could go back and forth debating about the relative famousness of Moore's ideas and essays, including the ones I cited in the question, but that would derail the discussion a bit further. I think we can both agree that it could ...

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Quick impressions: I thought this was a very good tournament. One of the things I want to commend the editing team for, which I usually bitch about, is the quality of the science (at least in my areas). Overall the quality of the science and the answer selection was very good, if also quite hard at...

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I would like to play without having written a packet, if that is possible. Yeah, we'll figure something out for you and Gautam. You'll probably be playing with Joe and a Minnesotan. Just to clarify: this team would not need to submit a packet, right? Or, if it would have to submit a packet I can be...

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I haven't ever felt the need to edit anything out about actual religions (I'd hardly consider Scientology one of those), but I do try and avoid commenting, positively or otherwise, on the nature of the beliefs or asserting things that aren't true (like all Muslims are terrorists or Catholics worship...

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One model of this practice divides it into three kinds and names those degrees divides this practice into three degrees So actually, the concept of the three degrees of price discrimination is pretty explicitly mentioned THREE times, though not using that exact phrase. All the other clues except Ro...

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Visa requirements for Romanian citizens wrote:Looking for a team for this; preferably a team that would prefer having a "fun" time as opposed to, say, winning.

Let's do this.

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OctagonJoe wrote:It is now looking somewhat likely that I will be attending this tournament. Doesn't look like there's a lot of space left on already formed teams, but I'll also play with any fellow latecomers to the field.

We could play together. We've done that before.

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There is a slight possibility I could be going to this mirror, but given the inferior date to the main site, I'm not sure. I'll keep you posted.

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every time i refresh i have a new name wrote:MattBo and I are playing this together and are seeking two more teammates.

Sure, why not.

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I enjoyed the tournament. I thought the questions were well-edited, with very few grammatical mistakes or typos, which made it really nice to read. I particularly enjoyed the tossup on Alice (of Wonderland fame), since that's something I don't hear often. And Mother Cabrini, the hard part of a bonu...

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