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If you have a Windows computer or iPhone/iPad, use the Fact Mountain apps for US Presidents, 19th-century American literature and Great Paintings. http://www.factmountain.net The US Presidents app got my younger kids enough history points to make the National History Bee finals last year. Do not do...

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We're working on a southeast mirror. I had heard rumors of a potential UCLA mirror, but have not heard anything from them. If you're a team in California who wants to host this, let me know.

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I would like to second Andrew's excellent and thoughtful comments and emphasize that this set was nowhere near what it said it would be for the North American audience. I can accept and anticipated a set with some difficulty cliffs and wild bonus variability, however the amount of British stuff was ...

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Thanks for running the poll, Mike!

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Are people interested in doing this again? I'm not sure if I'll be available to drive, but UMD can definitely hold a tryout in the first few weeks of February. Let me know of your/your teammate's interest by emailing me at danjpuma @ gmail.com. Thanks!

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If the site at W&M is postponed/cancelled Maryland will come to this site.

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Depending on what I can get done in the next couple of days, I might have some impossible speedcheck rejects. If I get really ambitious, I'll have a packet of (at least fairly) famous MLB/NBA/NCAAB plays.

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Can I please see the opera tossup? I'd also like to see the prime number bonus. In an episode of Arthur, Muffy doesn’t want to attend one of these events, and Rodney Gilfry helps the kids stage one of them. In an episode of The Simpsons, Bart is forced to attend one of these events after being mist...

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I found the general difficulty of the set to be much higher than a regular level set, much worse than HFT, though I think HFT had longer length questions. I'm sorry that the set was so hard. We did edit it to tone it down, but clearly did not tone it down enough. I have to say that I found the inco...

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So, there are going to be side events as well here, but I need to know what people are interested in so we can get a schedule going. Here are the things that are definitely happening: Impossible Speedchecks: Written by the UMD team. Cost will be $5 per person, with $4 going to PACE. I have pretty mu...

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the charm wrote:On a related note: how are mirrors in other regions shaping up? I'd like to know if a Midwest site is happening before I sit down and write a whole packet.

A UIUC mirror has just been confirmed!

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List of Mirrors: Canada: McMaster - 3/21 Northeast: Yale (duh) - 4/4 Mid-Atlantic: Maryland (duh) - 3/14 Southeast: Lousiville - 4/4 Texas/Gulf Coast: Louisiana Tech - 3/14 Great Lakes: UIUC - 3/14 Ohio/Michigan: Kenyon - 4/4 California: Cal Tech - 4/25 As you can see, we're still looking for a bunc...

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Ukonvasara wrote:Did Maryland ever post an announcement thread for their site?

We haven't yet, but it will be up very soon.

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That is correct.

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This tournament has been postponed to the spring. I'll find a new date for this within the next couple of days.

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The University of Maryland MAQT is pleased to invite you to the NAQT SCT. This tournament will take place in Jimenez Hall on February 7th, 2015. Please be there by 8:30; rounds will begin at nine and we would like to start as promptly as possible. This tournament will have separate DI and DII fields...

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Hey, we've had a few recent signups for this, but would love to get some more registrations. If you're planning on coming, go ahead and e-mail me!

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We hope you enjoyed the UMD Spring set, and we welcome your comments. If you are interested in providing your thoughts about specific questions or about the set as a whole, please join our discussion subforum by going to the Control Panel, selecting Usergroups, finding "Maryland Spring 2014 dis...

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This is an incredibly minor thing, but it seems like the Braque Triptych was van der Weyden's only work for private display, while the question says public display.

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Thanks for taking the time and effort to post that, Jason. I agree with many of your criticisms of the set and we have worked on fixing the errors and toning down the hard parts. I will say that, in general, I find criticism of the placement of power markings a bit inane and not super helpful. That ...

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I posted this in another thread: The film tossups I remember were pretty awful. The FMJ tossup went from a lead-in probably taken from Wikipedia to one of the most famous scenes in the movie. The Bunuel lead-in was basically, "this guy did Surrealist stuff!".

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One of the biggest problems I saw with this set was the general lack of answer line instructions for a lot of the tossups--the UCSD site had a shortage of experienced moderators, and it was worrying to see tossups that said "..._Mobutu_" but did not include something like (accept ".....

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This strikes me as incorrect. To turn this into a learning experience, I was under the impression that Cronenberg was known for his "body horror" style and Naked Lunch, but was declining in relevancy and "artistic merit" (however you want to define it) recently; I'd genuinely ap...

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Why is Italian independence not acceptable for Italian unification? The war following the Treaty of Plombieres is frequently called the Second War of Italian Independence.

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I'm curious as to why a tossup on a central concept from a very-well known cartoon is to be labeled a "less" legitimate form of trash simply because people who are half your age can enjoy it as well. Would people be labeling this question as "funn" if it happened to be on some i...

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Why was the tossup on the Airbending thing not a "tossup 0" instead of a real tossup? If my team had lost a game based on that funn tossup I would have been very upset. Yeah, it was never claimed that this tournament would not have trash. Having trash in only one round in service of the d...

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Why was the tossup on the Airbending thing not a "tossup 0" instead of a real tossup? If my team had lost a game based on that funn tossup I would have been very upset.

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Perhaps most teams would 20 those? I'd say this at least for the Four Seasons bonus. Perhaps I'm just out of the loop for high school difficulty, but if someone's looked at any top fifty list for music, The Four Seasons is bound to be up there, along with Flight of the Bumblebee, and they are among...

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Nigel Kennedy’s 1989 recording of this work is one of the best-selling classical recordings in history. For 10 points each: [10] Name this set of four violin concerti originally included in The Contest Between Harmony and Invention that depicts the different divisions of the year. ANSWER: The Four ...

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TSIAJ wrote:
Thanks!
Yes, the United States tossup was music-related (a bunch of clues on composers from here, etc.)

I found it and edited it in.

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May I see the following: Dvorak Symhony No. 9 Cage Schubert Flute United States Britten Swan Lake Four Seasons/Vivaldi/Corelli bonus ?/?/Glazunov bonus Sibelius/Karelia Suite/? bonus Thanks! Many of the themes in this symphony were inspired by Harry T. Burleigh, who arranged it. This symphony’s sec...

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The film tossups I remember were pretty awful. The FMJ tossup went from a lead-in probably taken from Wikipedia to one of the most famous scenes in the movie. The Bunuel lead-in was basically, "this guy did Surrealist stuff!".

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We hope you enjoyed the UMD Spring set, and we welcome your comments. If you are interested in providing your thoughts about specific questions or about the set as a whole, please join our discussion subforum by going to the Control Panel, selecting Usergroups, finding "Maryland Spring 2014 dis...

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We hope you enjoyed the UMD Spring set, and we welcome your comments. If you are interested in providing your thoughts about specific questions or about the set as a whole, please join our discussion subforum by going to the Control Panel, selecting Usergroups, finding "Maryland Spring 2014 dis...

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Hello! The University of Maryland is delighted to invite you to our mirror of Chris Borglum's always fantastic Delta Burke tournament on Sunday, November 16th! This tournament is geared toward those in their freshman and sophomore years of college. That said, we'd be delighted to welcome older novic...

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I tried to take a holistic approach ala Westbrook from this past year's nationals and have a good mix of questions on practice, theology/philosophy, and history/geography in the religion distribution. For history, I basically took Matt's tack and tried to keep a consistent difficulty while asking a...

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This is the question I submitted for the military bases bonus. It says to straight up accept army, naval, and air bases; let me check if it got edited to say otherwise: A large one of these facilities is located at Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. For 10 points each: [10] Name this type...

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I definitely don't think you skewed too easy. I thought most of the stuff was good (South Africa stands out in particular), but a few were just bad. That Coney Island tossup was awful. It basically said that this is a place in New York with an amusement park after the first 1.5 sentences. Also, that...

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I am delighted to invite you to COTTAGE Bowl, written by the entirety of Canada, at the University of Maryland, College Park. This tournament will be held on February 22nd, 2015(!), the day after our mirror of George Oppen, in Jimenez Hall. For the global COTTAGE Bowl announcement see here: http://h...

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Field is updated as of right now. I would like to point out that 4 of the top 16 teams in Fred's rankings are attending. Sign up!

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This tournament is rapidly filling up so get your registrations in soon!

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Has anyone heard anything about Louisville? They had a very solid team last year, and if they're returning their key players they should get some recognition. Austin Brownlow is going to Stanford. I'm not sure yet if Ram is coming back. EDIT: Who is coming back for Brown? And my impression is that ...

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The Predictable Consequences wrote:I believe Stephen Liu graduated from Harvard and is starting law school at Columbia.

I think he's staying at Harvard. Does anyone know if Kurtis coming back to Michigan?

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Alberta loses Trevor, right? And MIT loses Neil.

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This tournament has received Platinum Certification from PACE! That means that the top 25% of teams will qualify for the NSC.

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Minor: It might be worth checking to see if the clue using the word naufragium could be made a bit more specific to chariot races; as far as I know that word literally means "shipwreck," though I guess it can refer to vehicular crashes in general. Thanks for pointing this out. I changed t...

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These are back on for this week and will run through August. Also, we're going to see Guardians of the Galaxy after practice on Thursday, so come on out!

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This weekend suffered from enough issues that I think it's time to open up a larger conversation about side event scheduling. For those of you who weren't there, I'll provide a basic recap of what happened. Before the tournament, Matt announced that the weekend's schedule would be VCU Open, then Im...

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Practice will be canceled this week due to various people being out of town/working on VCUO.

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Confirmed Mirrors:

Chattahoochee (GA)
High Tech (NJ)
Raleigh Charter (NC)
Western Kentucky University (KY)
UCSD (CA)
Jefferson City (MO)
Rice University (TX)

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