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I still need a team for this.
EDIT: Joined a team with Miran and Eric S.

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I'm interested in this tournament, but ACF Fall is the next week, and it's too much to travel up to McMaster for two weekends straight. If there are a lot of people from Ottawa/ RIT/ elsewhere in this position, could you guys think about moving this back to November 7th? (I probably should have figu...

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This tournament happened. It was pretty good. The field was six teams from the University of Ottawa. The Rhinos (Dylan, Kathy, Jeff) went 8-0 and defeated the Turtles (Chris, Radu, Thea) in the final. Top scorers were Aaron (Tigers), Jeff (Rhinos), Ian (Giraffes), and Radu (Turtles). Staff from UOtt...

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4 team playoff bracket and 2 team consolation bracket. Is this optimal? We're expecting a field of 6 teams at the Ottawa site tomorrow, and after the round-robin, I might rather just do two brackets of 3 each with byes. What's the best way to do this, HSQB?: - having two byes per playoff round - ha...

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I really liked this thing. It struck me as basically 300 tossups of shadow canon. Long live The Colour of Pomegranates!

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In the absence of a TRASH regionals, you can expect at least one team from Ottawa.

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The University of Ottawa is hosting a mirror of the Early Autumn Collegiate Novice tournament (presented by ACF) on October 2, 2010. The tournament will begin at 10 a.m., and it will take place on the U of Ottawa campus on the 2nd floor of the Brooks building . Fee Structure - The base fee for the t...

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noted common quizbowl source Wikipedia wrote:A Gurdwara is also referred to as a Sikh temple.

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Can any teams adopt me for either day of this? I am a nice person, and I do not neg much.

EDIT: The Canadian team says they're taking me. I don't know if this means a five-person team or not.

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I think my least favourite was "Nathaniel Brandon" in the first few lines. I think my favourite was the tossup on Alexandrias. I will edit this post into a list of dislikes and favourite when I see all the questions eventually.

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When I wrote a Lu Xun question a few months ago, I actually thought I was filling a gap in the canon. My idea was that people don't ask much about Chinese lit, other than classics. To make sure it was gettable, I picked the one name I recognized.

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Brendan: What's an example of something you're interested in that you first discovered through quizbowl? VCU thing. I don’t know much about it, but as far as I know people read a packet. After each question or so, they talk about things, look at stuff online, and search archives. I have done this on...

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Should we all bring laptops?

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I don't exactly know who's on my team right now. The free agents might have to be spread around as "fifth players" on a bunch of different teams.

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bsmith wrote: I know that all the Michigan and Ottawa packets were sent, without reply.

Not ALL of them.

My stuff should be in on the 27th. I think if Sinan is writing, we're up to nine packets.

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Subject: How should NAQT change its distribution for 2010-11? 1. I feel that something should be done to make trash more academically orientated and to give it a fairly well defined canon. In the NAQT distribution thread, some people are talking about how trash questions in academic events could be...

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My team is Yohan Yee (McMaster), plus probably some Ottawa players who didn't write.

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If campaigning is discussion, then I think fourplustwo deserves a spot on that ballot. From playing tournaments and from crashing a bunch of practices this year, I would say that Sinan's usually about as good as the rest of Toronto put together. I know the ICT stats have Eric scoring a lot of the po...

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Word from Andy is July 10. There's a Facebook event now ("ANGST 2010 at Guelph") to help figure teams out.

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I guess I'm saying that, for a lot of people upset about the trash this weekend, they were probably already expecting not to like the trash this weekend. Tournaments have flaws. Power-marks and the Economist seem like valuable discussion points, but if there was really 3/3 hockey in the set, that's ...

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I really liked what I saw of both tournaments. I am glad that NAQT gives out polls every time.

It's like when a comic book gets adapted into a really good movie, and the comic book fans decide to hate the movie just because it got some costume wrong.

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Yeah, I PM'ed about six more people. If this offer ends up with dozens of people telling museum staff they are Dan Passner's close friends, then I withdraw my request. Could there be a way of banding together for a group discount on short notice?

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I want to do this. I am fun to hang around with sometimes.

Also, what's wiffle ball?

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I liked this set, at least for DII which I saw. - I liked that the toss-ups were short, and I especially liked that the bonuses were short. I don't mind if some questions went to buzzer races; I always win or lose those races depending on whether or not the answer had crossed my mind before. - I lik...

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If the tournament starts at 10am, I usually wish I weren't playing quizbowl by about 4pm.
(I know it's not the standard, but probably more people than just me feel this way.)

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Mike Bentley may be the greatest hero in quizbowl.

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Ottawa participation will probably hinge on my driving skills. I will get my act together and find out who wants to play sometime in the next week. It will be one team if we are going.

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Ducky Medwick is certainly no Gary Unger.

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All the questions about recent things were easy for most teams, and all the questions about old things were difficult for most teams.

(Maybe this is just how trash works.)

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Things that may or may not have happened at Terrapin Invitational in Guelph: - All the rooms may or may not have buzzed with "humping" when 50 Cent was accused of dry-snitching. - When a bonus part mentioned The Origin of the World , Will Nediger may or may not have turned to his teammate ...

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My letters are finished.

(Is this how you update status?)

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The particular articles I was referencing are the edits to "Harvest Bowl" (which took out the particulars of why the tournament sucked) and "Honda Campus All-Star Challenge" (that took out the particulars of why some of its policies were hateful, one of the primary pieces of evi...

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I just got letters, so I'd been hoping to do it on this weekend. Does midnight Saturday sound like an okay deadline?

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Not in Canada!

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I kind of love it that Matt is a great trash player. Who are the other quiz bowl players who are stars at both trash and academic?

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I guess I'll try some letters. Username BrendanM.

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Maybe one issue is that a lot of elite players still play in stuff like EFT and Thunder. It warps the stats a little bit, because it looks like "plenty of teams got 20 ppb" when those teams weren't really part of the tournament's target audience.

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Can I come staff this?

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This politician had success in the Third Servile War, including a defeat of Spartacus This is where my room negged on Pompey, and I'm pretty sure the clue fits Pompey. That seems like a more plausible hose than Matt's example. Also, "this god's son was born when ..." or "the losing g...

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I kind of hate video game questions, mostly because I suck at them but also because they're not a big part of pop culture. If you grab the entertainment section of any newspaper, there will be like ten articles each about movies and music, five about TV, and maybe one about video games. People like ...

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I've always wondered if the sub-distributions could be mapped out for a quota over whole tournaments. 1/1 Russian History 2/2 economics 1/0 or 0/1 Shakespeare 1/1 geology 4/4 Greek myth 1/1 World War Two 1/0 or 0/1 jazz 3/2 or 2/3 current events 1/1 anthropology 1/0 or 0/1 astronomy Like that, excep...

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From this thread plus my experience: - It's true that a lot of novices don't have any interest in real quizbowl. - Most of those people can be happy enough playing a circuit of easy tournaments plus trash tournaments. - It's true that other novices would like playing serious quizbowl. - Most of them...

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Do people ever just open the encyclopedia and write about what their finger landed on? I have to assume someone's thought of this before. Why doesn't it happen?

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Good luck getting them to adopt any proposal like this. This. VETO doesn't have to be the flagship for good quizbowl in Canada. It seems simpler to introduce new good tournaments and mirrors than it does to work on "fixing" something that someone else runs. Isn't this one of the lessons f...

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I'm not sure I like what you're thinking about, Russian Dance Music. I talked to people who were pretty angry at the "editors in Vancouver." Edit to add a list of favourites: Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer, Long Day's Journey into Night, August Wilson, Beethoven's 3rd, Newfoundland, Measure fo...

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I think it's mostly a matter that longer tossups make the tournament feel harder? Because people spend a lot of time thinking, "I don't know this." When I left the tournament I sort of thought the questions were impossible, but looking back over the stats the point scores are not that low....

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