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mhayes

I really enjoyed this tournament, Mike. Thanks for writing it!

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My reading of modern academic epistemology suggests that quizbowl would be critiqued as "gendered" (woman as "other answer", women rulers/writers etc. implicitly mentioned as groundbreaking and therefore implicitly made an exception) and "racialized." In recent years, ...

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Thanks Rob.

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Could I get a copy of this set from someone? Thanks.

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Is anyone looking to share a hotel room on Friday night?

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Will quizbowl basketball happen at night or in the afternoon?

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I'm in.

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We're bringing at least one team, but likely not more than that. We'll also let you know for certain as the date gets closer.

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I wouldn't worry too much about that rule necessarily keeping a lot of interested people out (especially if you have the option of leaving the purview of that Honors Council next year). Also, tournament eligibility rules supersede the rules of the Honors College. So for example, if a non-honors stu...

mhayes · Re: IFT at Buffalo 10/6/12 Case will very likely send a team to this.

Case will very likely send a team to this.

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I'm pretty sure we'll send at least one team to this.

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10/13 Tournament at Episcopal School of Acadiana (LAAC tournament, but I'm talking to them about making it pyramidal) Nick, I'm an alum of ESA, so if you'd like, I can also make some calls to explain the merits of pyramidal quiz bowl. One of their faculty members is my former teammate at ULL, so I ...

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I agree that the "Raindrop" prelude should have been mentioned in the Chopin tossup. The rest of the music seemed okay though.

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I personally do not post my tournaments on this board, even though they conform to the "good quizbowl" standard and have been well received by those unfamiliar with the form, simply because I see no reason put up with the unyielding criticism that results. While I don't mind explaining my...

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Alternately, if anyone has space (even floor space) in a hotel room that they don't mind sharing, I wouldn't mind paying a share of your hotel bill to take it. Thanks. Me and two of my teammates will be staying at a hotel on Saturday night (though I'm not sure which one yet), so you're more than we...

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Tees-Exe Line wrote: And then there's "A Theory of Intersteller Trade," which Krugman actually delivered in the humor session of this year's AEA meeting. So yeah, I'd say these questions treat economics as a joke

For what it's worth, that tossup was written by an economics major.

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Big O - this was not good. I wanted to neg with runtime the whole time, and I'm sure other people did too. Rob and Trevor certainly have more experience with this, but I've had to use the Master theorem once or twice and it was kind of frustrating to not be able to figure out what it wanted. This t...

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On second thought, it will be considerably more expensive for me to attend this mirror, so I think I'll stick with Ann Arbor. I'm sad that I'll miss basketball and the technology tournament, however.

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Okay, so for various reasons, I'm considering attending this mirror of KABO instead of the one at Ann Arbor. Would someone be willing to split the costs of a hotel Saturday night?

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Thanks for the solid critiques. So it seems the problems were mostly 1) misplaced clues and 2) the answers being obvious. I'll do my best to remedy these issues for future tournaments.

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There were certainly several tossups that dropped clues too early, several stupid answerlines, the Brendan Byrne packet which sounded like a dialup modem connecting to the internet, etc. I don't think it would be helpful to list these, unless people want comments on their packets specifically which...

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As a former member, I thought the tossup on the A.M.E Church was awesome.

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There's still a chance that this could all be a moot point. According to the original thread, there are currently only 8 packets submitted for the history tournament. The only thing that would annoy me about bracketing the history tournament is the possibility that my packet wouldn't be used. But th...

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Horned Screamer wrote: I frankly don't see the remotest utility to a wireless buzzer

I've never worked with a wireless system, but I assume that they are much easier to setup.

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Considering that Will has devoted tons of hours to actually writing a whole tournament it only seems fair that his tournament should take precedence over the slapdash, unedited history doubles. True, but others may have made travel plans around the assumption that history doubles would be played fi...

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My bus to Cleveland leaves at 11:30 Sunday night, so is it safe to assume that we'll finish both tournaments at around 10:00ish? If so, then I wouldn't be opposed to switching the events. Otherwise, I'd strongly prefer to hold the history tournament first since I'm only staffing for WELD. ETA: Obvio...

mhayes · Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012 Team Byrne will submit it's packet today.

Team Byrne will submit it's packet today.

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I'll rehash what I stated on the Facebook group. Some of the biggest "tone offenders" on this board have a proven track record of promoting good quiz bowl. So while it's certainly natural to take exception to one's abrasiveness, the *manner* in which one conveys a message is inconsequentia...

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DumbJaques wrote: I'm also anticipating plenty of time Sunday afternoon for quizbowl basketball

I'm suddenly interested in the UMD mirror of KABO.

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The problems with Sunday's set have been largely discussed already, so I don't have much more to add in that regard. I will say that even though this was an easy tournament, many of the questions suffered from clues that were misplaced, and I think that the comments about the inconsistency of bonus ...

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I have yet another conference at Michigan, so I'll be there next week.

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Mike Bentley wrote:Is anyone interested in splitting a hotel on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights (or some of those nights)?

I'm game for Saturday night.

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There are plenty of interesting threads there. Unfortunately, HBCU participation in good quiz bowl hasn't changed much since then, so it's good to see people who are committed to outreach. I think a natural difficulty with outreach is that HBCUs are mostly in the South, while the most active collegi...

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I'll definitely play this, though if the Midwest site is at UIUC, I might play at the east coast mirror since it will likely be closer.

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matthew.hayes28

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Although I'm no longer in Louisiana, I'd also like to help get an alliance off the ground. My e-mail is matthew.hayes --- case.edu.

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I'll staff if I can catch an earlier flight.

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Then I'm tentatively a free agent for this, provided that it a) doesn't interfere with the DBZ event and b) doesn't interfere with QB basketball.

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What time would this be played at HSNCT?

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I can staff this.

mhayes · Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012 I'll be teaming with Brendan Byrne.

I'll be teaming with Brendan Byrne.

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Which brings me to a bigger point: I'll be going to La Tech next year and hopefully starting a team. If we could have a active programs at Tulane/LSU/Tech at the same time I think we should try and get 20/20 Quiz Bowl more exposure, push it harder, etc. I cannot stand the randomness of LAAC tournam...

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We've been trying to carve our own niche in Southeast Louisiana, but the problem is that communication becomes very difficult once you get outside of New Orleans (an issue that exists in many areas, quiz bowl being just one of them). We're working to get everyone on the same page, but the fact is t...

mhayes · Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012 I'd like to play this.

I'd like to play this.

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One female friend of mine within quizbowl (although not anybody from my own team or general distant corner of the circuit) has suggested that the paucity of female quizbowl players has to do with the fact that some male quizbowl players have an unfortunate tendency to hit on women who play in unwel...

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Here's my open ballot (no offense intended to anyone): 1. Eric Mukherjee 2. Matt Bollinger 3. Chris Ray 4. Matt Jackson 5. Auroni Gupta 6. Ike Jose 7. Andrew Hart 8. John Lawrence 9. Will Nediger 10. Dallas Simons 11. Evan Adams 12. Kurtis Droge 13. Ted Gioia 14. Will Butler 15. Guy Tabachnik 16. He...

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MLafer wrote:Just FYI you should sign your name as more than just 'Matt', quiz bowl is notably replete with them.

It isn't me, FWIW.

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Amon Goeth wrote:Predictably, interest doesn't seem too great for the classical music tournament.

I'd be willing to play this if I go to CO.

That being said, my preference is:

1) Technology
2a) History
2b) Classical music

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I'm attending a conference at UM next month from 5/15 to 5/17, so I'll drop in if time permits.

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I do realize that this is the same day as OAC tournaments. If I may ask, why was this event scheduled on the day of OAC regionals? I think your attendance will suffer greatly because of this. And as Tom said, you would do well to use a reputable vendor. There are several well-known issues with Ques...

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