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Any chance you still want questions past the deadline?

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I am a free agent for this tournament, I posted my deets to the spreadsheet
EDIT: On team Neggers with Attitude with Daniel Galitsky of RM, we need two more.

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HA just noticed the submission deadline. I can try to get some done but have other priorities on the question front. Will do my best to get some written.

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I don't have a "fetish" for video chat, so apologies to Charlie, but I can read. raynell.cooper is my skype thingamajig.

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The rn/m problem was a contributing factor in one of my team's Geography Bowl losses, the reader said "tam" when he was supposed to say "tarn" and it completely threw me off. When I read from a laptop, I change the font to Cambria. Not sure what is best for reading on paper. The...

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The rn/m problem was a contributing factor in one of my team's Geography Bowl losses, the reader said "tam" when he was supposed to say "tarn" and it completely threw me off. When I read from a laptop, I change the font to Cambria. Not sure what is best for reading on paper. Theo...

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Ben Greenho plays Chipbowl.

EDIT: Also, Anshika plays for Beachwood.

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I think that if it doesn't get in the way, financially or otherwise, from you doing other, better things, and if KMO doesn't wrong your team personally, then there's no reason to not do it if you're enjoying it. I haven't played since elementary school so I have no idea what the time commitment is o...

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Almost all of the neg prizes I saw in high school were won by players that were (usually) pretty phenomenal at getting 10s and 15s. In the DC area, the neg prize (awarded or otherwise) almost always goes to a top 10 player. That being said, I'll echo what many people earlier have said: I think if yo...

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Unless I'm misunderstanding the way ranking work in a single elimination bracket, I think those placements are off. The results for the five teams mentioned: Whitman A lost in the first round to GDS A. Saint Anselm's beat the sixth team (Whitman B?) in the first round. RM and Blair had byes. RM def...

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Oakland Mills finished 6th with a record of 5-4, losing the fifth place game to Caesar Rodney. This was a great tournament! GDS A finished first, beating St. Anselm's on the last tossup of a one-game final. Blair finished third, beating Whitman A on the last tossup of the third-place game. BCC and ...

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I liked the set, though I feel that the bonus difficulty was a bit all over the place (though this is to be expected). I found the Cotton/Anaconda Plan/New Orleans bonus way too easy for a regular college set.

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OK regarding the "plagiarism": I talked to Daniel about this and the instances of plagiarism you've cited aren't full lines or sentences but are very short fragments that can't really be reworded. They were just facts that appeared both in sources and in the question. In quizbowl, using fa...

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The same way you deal with mirrors during the same year! Don't let somebody in Illinois mirror it again! I guess, although this set really shouldn't be used. I don't think there really are that many major flaws with this tournament that can't be fixed by someone more experienced than you or me look...

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The tournament listed as NHBB Maryland at RM should be replaced with NHBB DC at St. Anselm's, to be held on that same date.

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UMD A and UVA A are in a one-game final after both going 9-1.

Edit: UMD takes it 400-260

Chris will post stats et al. in the very near future

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I can probably help write for this but I'm not sure I can make it down to ATL.

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I applaud your acronyming.
If you need readers, I might be around.

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It's also fairly convenient for teams flying in Friday night to land at National airport in DC and take the metro to College Park. Yeah, this is the easiest way to get to College Park from an airport in my opinion. The Metrobus from BWI to Greenbelt is not a bad second option, though neither it nor...

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Sure, this makes sense. Though don't overstate the extremeness of NHBB here - even with 240 points available in the fourth quarter (and superpowers of 30 points each are proving very rare indeed), that's still only 34% of the points in the game. But at least, to use another basketball analogy, it g...

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Thanks for your comments. Donald, your point is one that I'm addressing separately, on consistent difficulty. That's honestly more an issue for HSAPQ, though. Beyond that, I am not at all in favor of going over to 20/20. I know it's the standard format, but I think it's repetitive, doesn't make lat...

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Any reason NHBB hasn't gone north of the border? That seems like a good place to expand into, what with a bit of a quizbowl circuit and relative proximity to America.

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If bizarre facebook posts by Daniel Galitsky are to be believed, RM apparently won this. RM A won the Bowl, beating Whitman A in the Finals RM B and GDS were the two semifinalists. Todd Pollak (from Whitman) won the bee, beating Josh Weaver(from RM) RM C won the JV Bowl. Additionally, Conor Habinge...

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Sure, we can always use help, if you mean volunteering. In terms of directing, we're probably set (but need to confirm this one with Raynell). I'm good with directing but it's always really great to have another experienced hand around to help deal with any crises that may arise. Also you're cool. ...

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Since this is right before exams, I wouldn't expect a GW team in any sort of full glory, but as someone who can care less about academics, I'll probably try to make it.

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Hey, GW sent an email a few days ago, we're registering two teams and a buzzer.

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GW should probably be taken off the registration list, considering GW never registered.

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No Electricity Required wrote:
The Herb wrote:Google Chrome is telling me that the Team Detail page is in Malay.
This happens a lot with SQBS reports (at least it does to me).

I think "tuh" might have something to do with it.

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Was there some sort of GW registration besides my post? My post was by no means a registration.

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This was an interesting discussion. Re:Univ School of Nashville: Their returning captain finished third in the National Geographic Bee in middle school (I was in the audience for that), so he has that covered, and he totally burned me at History Bee, so I think they can be top 8 at HSNCT, especially...

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At the first practice, offer food, start with easy questions, and give lots of words of encouragement. If you see anyone with promise, be sure to follow up with them and get them to come back.

Also, try paying attractive girls to come to your first practice.

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College Park Spyders wrote:It's college, you don't have to worry about insurance or whatever anymore if you're playing solo for your school.

True, but I never got a chance to play under a pseudonym school in high school and I always kinda wanted to. Point being, I will probably be there, with or without people.

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I can't speak for GW yet, but consider at least "Morrissey University" interested.

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I'll try to get some GW people to go to this. It's on my birthday, but I may coach/read anyway, at least for a little bit.

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although I'm a terrible person to go on since I couldn't tell you what's hard and what's not. This is somewhat unrelated, but Arun and I were discussing how one would go about tackling a tossup on an author (or in the case we were discussing, artist) that wasn't tossed-up very often. How does one d...

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I think the benefits of having timed rounds at HSNCT definitely outweigh the risks; almost all rooms from my experience get at least 18 tossups, usually more. Issues like the Vermont case that Robert brought up are intriguing. If you have an untimed tournament with bad readers, the tournament will t...

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When the date comes up, I'll definitely use my Lincoln County connections and try to get a team or two from Newport and/or Toledo and/or Siletz to make the journey up there.

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Prof.Whoopie wrote:
Visa requirements for Romanian citizens wrote:Anybody want to play basketball after this is all over? The gym is open until 10 and there are some reasonably well-lit outdoor courts.
Totally.

I'd be down if my parents could give me a ride that late from CP (or Aidan to a Metro on the western branch of the Red Line

) I'd be down

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I don't believe scores were kept for the anime packet. When I went to fall asleep, Drew was beating everyone else who was playing CULT during the fourth round (before that, Drew's team had won 2 out of 3 rounds). Drew won all of the trash basically except the round he fell asleep in, which was done...

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WSchneider wrote: "Country Club Bowl"

This was actually pretty fun, I got to play half of it and there were some interesting answer lines. Very well-written too.

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This happened, is happening and is an absolutely amazing experience. A team consisting of Aaron Cohen, Gabe Johnson and Brian Smiley defeated "What's the situation room" consisting of James Lasker, Marisol Brady and Hunter Brook. We then played the anime packet by Joe, and then all 5 roun...

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Went through stuff from last year. Here's the changes from preseason to postseason rankings, for the top 25 of each. State College 1 -> 1 LASA 2 -> 2 Bellarmine 3 -> 3 Hunter 6-> 4 Maggie Walker 4 -> 5 Stevenson 5 -> 6 Auburn 12 -> 7 Dorman 7 -> 8 Seven Lakes 8 -> 9 St. Ignatius 18 -> 10 Centennial...

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I know many quizbowl players who would do significantly better on a music bonus about pre-birth music than present day music, me included.

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This rapper named his label for a historically segregated Tulsa neighborhood. After starting The Black Wall Street, this Compton native released the albums ~The Documentary~, (*) ~Doctor's Advocate~, and ~LAX~. For 10 points--name this rival of 50 Cent and G-Unit with a competitive stage name. answ...

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I can attest to this crazy coincidence happening.

EDIT: Coincidentally, the person who won that episode was from Arlington, VA.

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then I suggest that instead of piggybacking with the ICT, that you instead piggyback or join up with the American Historical Association. Their annual meeting hosts thousands of historians and I think there might be room for something like this to run during, before, or after the conference. From w...

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Can you PM me the address that this is happening at so I can start looking at trains to get there, and deciding if I need to ask my parents to borrow their car (as I'm planning on going down to D.C. right after the tournament, and want to figure out which way is more cost-efficient). I just did som...

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Cheynem wrote:Wait...chicken restaurants are "somewhat academic?"

Wait, how did I miss that? You can't make the case that chicken restaurants (or any trash) are somewhat academic

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An issue with sports is canon size as well. At least by NAQT standards, any team in the Big Four leagues is fair game, as well as many college teams, not to mention athletes and international players, leagues, etc. as well as concepts (see "relegation"). There are at least 200 tossupable t...

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Those are the best team names ever.

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