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Yeah, this is great. Just spent the better part of an hour on this week's map.

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Depending on the date, I might be able to drive up from New Haven to staff. However, that's very dependent on getting a weekend off from work.

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Actually, for discount purposes, I want to write my half-packet, which given that I've been writing questions for years, is more or less of usable quality.

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Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2015 is required to submit a packet From looking at the individual site announcements, it seems like it was changed to: Any team with at least two people on it who played a r...

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wnober wrote: Any team with at least two people on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2015 is required to submit a packet...

Can someone from ACF explain the two person thing that's showing up in these announcements?

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For instance, when you toss up "The Great Mississippi Flood," and basically nobody answers it until the end, you have in fact basically written a one line tossup that says "say a superlative word (or 1928-1), then the big river in the southern US, then the word 'flood', which I have ...

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I'm a little late to the party after returning from vacation, but this sort of thing is really awesome.

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Yeah, I have absolutely no problem with common links and even really enjoy them. Lord knows I wrote a fair share of them in 2013. I was specifically commenting about the common-links-on-a-phrase questions, which never really occurred to me as a way to do a common link. I thought they were interestin...

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Let me first say I loved this set. There were really entertaining ideas (Morgellons!). My only minor gripe is that it seemed that were a fair number of music questions based on "this n-word phrase" such as "Come On" and "On the Road Again." Were there really that many o...

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Hey, it has reached my attention that David Seal, although apparently neck-deep in a legal quagmire of Gaddisian proportions, will be very sad if there isn't an East Coast mirror of CO trash for him to play. I assume there are other people, not all of whom are Marnold, who feel similarly. If you're...

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As near as I can tell, the field is now 100% full (80 players on 20 teams! Hooray!), but we're still looking for an additional staffer or two to make things run more smoothly. Please contact Andrew and I if you're interested--you'll get not only lunch and our undying appreciation, but also the chan...

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So the as-yet-unnamed team of myself, Sara Burke, Sam Bailey, and David Seal has lost its David Seal to work commitments. Are now looking for a free agent. Sports knowledge a plus. PM me or something.

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A starting point is to look at all the fundamental undergraduate math courses after calculus (linear algebra, abstract algebra, discrete math/graph theory, real analysis, point-set topology, probability/stats, and a few others), and learn (and understand) the basic definitions from each chapter in ...

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Giants.

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Huh, ACF-content bar trivia actually sounds pretty fun. I'd be curious to see the questions from that get posted after the event. Also, I do realize you guys are stuck with a set that many prominent players have heard for this year, and will be figuring out a custom set in the future, so the field ...

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Any of the bear names from Grizzly Man. Except Saturn. Saturn ate her babies.

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Zakk Waddell and Ross Wallace from West Point both got full-scholarships to play Quiz Bowl at Wallace State CC. I sincerely hope this becomes a trend. I'll take this opportunity to point out that Michigan State also offers a scholarship ranging up to full tuition+room and board+annual stipend for d...

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I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I can't think of any sort of non-Calvinball competition in which the number of teams would vary between games. In what universe do three team matches make any sense when literally every other single match participants will ever play in the history of fore...

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For what extremely little it's worth, I'll be at Central Connecticut State for another semester in the Fall, meaning I'll play stuff held at Yale if I can and hopefully staff some tournaments if I ever get a weekend off from work.

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I will be attending Michigan Tech in the fall to start an MS in Mathematical Sciences. I do wish to remain involved in quiz bowl while at MTU. That's Awesome! Michigan Tech always struck me as a good place for a quiz bowl team in spite of relative geographic isolation. Hopefully you'll have good lu...

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From the description, it doesn't seem like these actually integrate with a computer. I think they just play four different sounds. That would make it hard to customize them for quizbowl use. This Amazon question seems relevant: Question: Will I be able to tell if who pres their buzzer first? Answer...

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I think there was talk recently of using these to integrate with computers, so buy away if desired.

Today (Fri 3/18) only

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resource ... 05&sr=1-48

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Officially will be in Chicago for this, so looking for teammates. Personal strengths include: Knowing that sports are liked by many people and may come up in questions. Knowing how a television operates and how to watch it frequently enough to recognize shows that might appear in questions. Knowing ...

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Interested. Can't quite commit to being in Chicago that weekend yet, though.

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Because it usually affects CO, Pitchfork Music Festival is the weekend of the 16th this year.

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Historical question, I guess - if Chris Ray isn't the fellow behind things like "You are a nomad in 12th-century Kyrgyzstan. Answer these questions about your life in the Central Asian steppe for 10 points each.", then who is? I always figured (perhaps incorrectly) this was the sort of th...

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In college I had a teammate who was notorious for negging excessively. I experimented with various techniques to help him. Once, I made him sign an index card saying "I promise not to neg". He negged the very next tossup he heard after signing that card. I had more luck with a system wher...

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Cody wrote:Carrie and Lowell.

Continuing to find correct ballots and piggyback off of them.

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gyre and gimble wrote:To Pimp a Butterfly (To me, musicals are only artistic insofar as they are musicals--a musical soundtrack on its own is just a gimmick.)
Carrie and Lowell

To lazy to post thoughts; this is the correct ballot.

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Personally, I've been really into Michigan high school quiz bowl outreach and thought about this at the beginning of the year, but would people be interested in the creation of a Michigan Quiz Bowl Association promoting good quiz bowl and outreach? PACE just contacted me about it and I wouldn't min...

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...and finally, my certificate of completion:
http://imgur.com/qRsCIZ5

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Also, this gem http://imgur.com/CEn6uan

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Found just a second ago while going through mandatory Title IX training for Grad School:

http://imgur.com/VgqWNwY

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MALIK SECTIONAL #1 To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRK7PVJFbS8) vs. #8 Darkest Before Dawn (Pusha T, gotta look it up yourself) #2 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (A$AP Rocky, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEG2VTHS9yg) vs. #7 Compton (Dr. Dre, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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I'm not sure if any Yoopers read this board, but Northern Michigan University's quiz bowl team has started running high school tournaments. I'll make sure to announce them here so they can be added to the calendar (we just had one on December 5th--Escanaba finished 9-0 to take the trophy). We will ...

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This paper is a good paper as far as I can tell; I haven't really gone through it in depth, but I figured it'd appeal to a number of people here

Warning: NSFW language in link:

http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf

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Though I'm not particularly convinced that a high-schooler dressed in business casual would assuage all my concerns about a quiz bowl tournament (though it couldn't hurt), I think it might be worth discussing some other general professionalism tips. One thing that gets under my skin a little bit as ...

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So, I'm beginning to get more serious about fiddling around with this as a real project. A number of people in this thread have mentioned about having access to questions. Would anyone have access to (hopefully already categorized) plain-text ACF questions from say the last 10 years? Just roughly, I...

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By and large, I thought this set fell into the "good but not revolutionarily so" category. There were some pretty big science clunkers, of which the most egregious, "linear" having already been mentioned. By and large (and I think the stats will bear me out on this), I think the ...

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So this tournament wrapped up for me at least (I'm not sure what's going on in terms of finals) about fifteen minutes ago at 4:15PM. As near as I could tell it went off without a hitch. The moderators I had were good and kept things flowing very well. However, there is one thing I must strenuously o...

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Nothing will ever top the distinct genius of The Perry Bible Fellowship.

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Any updates on where on campus this will be?

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I'll express interest. I have one potential teammate (not from CCSU) and would be interested in picking up more as an open team. However, I'm not sure I can get two weekends in a row off from work.

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We had 91 registrations before 14 September last year. We have 90 registrations as of this post on 13 September. Some mirrors might have fewer teams, but on the whole this is shaping up to be another exciting year for ACF Fall. That said, we do hope that hosts are proactively contacting regional pr...

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Are the fields usually this sparse at the first deadline? It seems like there's a good number of mirror sites with very few signups.Just kind of curious. I know it's early in the year, which might be some of it, especially for quarter-system teams

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Definitely interested. What, if any, are the eligibility rules?

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I really loved that the "Flipped classroom" method came up. However, I'm not sure why "flipped classroom" wasn't acceptable. I spent the better part of two years working in schools beginning to implement this model and never really heard it referred to as anything but the "...

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Incredibly minor complaint:

Is there a good reason why Ken Cosgrove wasn't an acceptable answer in that bonus? I knew it was him immediately from the description of his stories, but was it really necessary to prompt for his pen name that was mentioned only once or twice in the entire series?

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I really loved that the "Flipped classroom" method came up. However, I'm not sure why "flipped classroom" wasn't acceptable. I spent the better part of two years working in schools beginning to implement this model and never really heard it referred to as anything but the "f...

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Yeah, it's not clear to me that starting a CC team would be the best way to get better as a player. If you already have a team that performed decently at HSNCT and are already interested in quiz bowl, I imagine it would be easier to continue to compete with them rather than starting a CC team from s...

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