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But if you click on them again, they don't disappear. Please, son, do something nontrivial for a change. Proof-of-concept, man, proof-of-concept. Besides, it's not really that worth my while until more than one (1) packet of quiz bowl questions exists as pure HTML. Though hey, question database peo...

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If you click on the questions, the answers appear.

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The randomization problem is a perfect argument for why an online collaborative system of packet editing would be a great boon to quizbowl. It is coming, and in fact I could use some help testing such a system. Just let people start using it, man. Post a link, open up a thread, get comments. People...

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The randomization problem is a perfect argument for why an online collaborative system of packet editing would be a great boon to quizbowl. It is coming, and in fact I could use some help testing such a system. Just let people start using it, man. Post a link, open up a thread, get comments. People...

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If I answered "United States of America" after hearing clues for "Mt. Rainier" and "Crater Lake," I suppose I would be prompted, but that would be up to the moderator, not necessarily the writer/editor. Contrariwise, it is the duty of the question-writer to write as ex...

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I sure as hell am not going to play this.

But I'll probably be able to moderate.

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Ukonvasara wrote:AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT EVAN SILBERMAN

what

EDIT: oh hey it is my fault

sry everybody

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Field updated. Also, buzzers would be awesome if this is actually going to happen. (Andy? Hannah?)

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Captain Scipio wrote:Quizbowl, you say?!

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Mike Sorice, I'm going to be sitting in my room on Thursday improvising questions about cartoons that aired on the WB during the 90s. Can I put you down for playing solo?

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Obviously I have nothing to do with Maggie Walker's program, but 12/12 is sort of in the neighborhood of when GSAC usually happens, IIRC.

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Welcome to Crazy Silberman's Web Application Emporium! Our prices are so low, they're crazy! Specifically, all hosts of ACF Regionals this weekend are invited to use Taft for free! Just sign up for an account if you don't have one already, and then email me (ejs07@hampshire.edu) with your login nam...

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Hey hey it's a field update! Of sorts. FIELD (4): Eric 'n Linna Superteam Amherst Quizbowl in the Gardens of Spain (Watkins and Hannah) Hypothetical Hampshire House Team Sign up, you quiz bowl team sorts of individuals. Also, any Boston-area teams hoping to travel by mass transportation should look ...

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:
Bentley Like Beckham wrote:No
FYI I was joking.

Classic Mike Bentely humor there.

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There isn't really a great sans serif font out there. Gill Sans? FF Meta? Frutiger? Univers? Futura? Helvetica, even? Presumably you don't actually mean "no sans serif font is good". When I was designing the BEeS website, I finally settled on Tahoma. body { font: 100% Helvetica, sans-seri...

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I think it is a good idea for CO and VCU Open to be reasonably spaced out, i.e., not have them both take place in August, or at the very least not on consecutive weekends.

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I would also like to thank Grace et al. for the well-organized event, and for the Ehrlenmeyer flask as a scoring prize.

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I wrote all the computer science for the tournament. I'd really appreciate feedback of any kind from anyone who cares to offer it.

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As of last night, Taft now supports separate prelim and playoff brackets, as you can see in the stats for Prison Bowl II . I've been wanting to get playoff brackets working for a while, since it's a pretty critical feature for college tournaments, which are generally expected to provide differentiat...

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everyday847 wrote:flaunt

You mean "flout". This is a common error.

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Updated first post with registration information and packet-writing details from the main MUT post. Y'all best sign up.

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Speaking of SQBS files, if anyone out there happens to have a specification of the SQBS data format, I'd quite probably attempt to implement an export-to-SQBS-file feature for Taft.

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Cheynem wrote:Minimal stops are somewhat hard to pull off with 4+ people.

For his next trick, Rob Carson will answer meta tossups on his bathroom habits.

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Cheynem wrote:James Blaine

Cheynem wrote:James G. Blaine

Cheynem wrote:James Gillespie Blaine, the Continental Liar from the State of Maine

Um, as you were.

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I don't think it's too helpful to go formulating axioms which have the practical effect of stopping some places from putting on otherwise-useful tournaments, since they just don't have enough class two and three people available. Well, the main target of this axiom is programs that do have access t...

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I have a friend who learned theology at Oxford. I learned theology from reading books and packets. We've been meeting fairly regularly for lunch to discuss the subject, and virtually every time he catches me mispronouncing a technical term (usually a Greek borrowing) and notes how obvious it is tha...

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As for Silberman's Axiom itself, I will oppose it on the grounds of distributive justice. I can think of no rule better suited to ensure that smaller, newer programs are unable to raise money and get themselves off the ground. You do realize you have essentially said that newer programs should be a...

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My point was more that being exposed to a wider vocabulary to begin with improves the odds that one will have a clue of how to pronounce something. Without the eventual introduction of information on how words are pronounced, this does not follow at all. I elided the premise that one eventually att...

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2. Some moderators struggle through uncommon domestic words. I believe the general ACF prescription of book-reading applies I usually don't venture into the college section, but this struck me. Reading alone will not allow you to pronounce words with more ease. You may see the word and go "Oh,...

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My somewhat acrimonious remarks in the leaving early thread sparked a bit of a side discussion which I think deserves its own thread. I have asserted, without much defense, the following axiom of tournament organization on multiple occasions over the years: never run a tournament for which you lack ...

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Pssst sometimes you don't have enough good moderators to finish rounds in 30 minutes or less. ITT I am surly. Ok, so, maybe in the upper northwest, Mike and Brittany are probably the only really experienced moderators; that's fair. But really, anywhere else in the country, you shouldn't be recruiti...

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OK seriously all of you dumb fucks are making this far too complicated. Leaving tournaments early when it will fuck things up or without telling the TD is bad. Leaving tournaments early at an appropriate juncture, giving the TD some advance notice, for whatever reason, isn't, you know, awesome, but ...

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Sir Thopas wrote:One thing you're sort of forgetting is the job of a tournament director. They are being paid

What?

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Anybody else signed up for this lately?

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Matthew D wrote:Radio Shack had the button

Radio Shack still exists?

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Questions are handed out in .doc form fairly universally, so any solution should address that. I realize this, but my point is that MS Word, while fairly ubiquitous, is not at all a standard, in the technical sense. At ACF Nationals and Chicago Open, I opened up each round in TextEdit and used OS X...

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Good God, people! Split the screen! Yeah, do this. If you're on a Mac and the questions are PDFs (and they ought to be, or TDs ought at least to provide that option when passing out files), I endorse Skim , which uses Apple's built-in PDFKit framework to display PDFs but does so with a rather more ...

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Anything from 11-15 rounds is usually standard, anything over that is really unusual. 12 is certainly in the range of an acceptable number of rounds. But, this "getting back by midnight" stuff is a mirage...if you're getting back by midnight terribly often, you're either not playing qb or...

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dtaylor4 wrote:
HKirsch wrote:Has anybody in the Northeast expressed interest in attending a mirror/hosting a mirror of MUT?
IIRC, HIPPIE will be a MUT mirror.

It's true!

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2. Categories. What made me most frustrated was the fact that under Fine Arts they had a movie question. FINE ARTS SHOULD BE MUSIC AND ART NOT MOVIES!!!!!! Thats what miscellaneous/ pop culture is for. Eh, film comes up as part of the fine arts distribution with some regularity. Not a large part, b...

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So, like, are you going to be writing a native client for each OS, or is this going to be employing everybody's least-favorite cross-platform programming environment, Java?

Edit: Also, i call shenanigans.

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No Rules Westbrook wrote:And Tom, stop using terms like "nerd" in a thinly-veiled derogatory manner, as if you're just too cool for our school.

Especially since it's against board rules! So if you do it again, you will be tempbanned!

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Sir Thopas wrote:awesome but i hope this doesn't conflict with acf nationals

The overlap in audience for ACF Nationals and HAVOC is pretty tiny, Guy.

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Sir Thopas wrote:Proposal: All questions that can be linguistic frauded shall be atoned for in future sets by actual linguistics tossups at a rate of 1:1.

Start writing them, Guy.

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Fake clues that you get from memorizing a list of nonsense like author birthplaces are the core definition of what "fraud" is. In that case, I'm pretty sure people use "fraud" to mean a variety of suspicious practices, ranging from this one (buzzing on purposefully included but ...

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I contend that even the player who gets it because he knows where Ibsen grew up has frauded the question. A person who has memorized where Ibsen grew up should not get a question over someone who has read 6 Ibsen plays and familiarized himself with character names from several more. Well, let's be ...

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quiz bowl doesn't just spread into a new area like a disease, it has to be marketed. NAQT's propensity for marketing quiz bowl to uncharted areas is probably its greatest contribution to the community at large, but it is also gives rise to some of the frustrations that certain people have with NAQT...

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Hey, people! Add your tournaments to the tournament database! It's a good idea!

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grapesmoker wrote:Hampshire

Not in the cards.

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Remember, kids, add your tournaments to the Tournament Database! This is why it exists, and stuff.

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So, just your annual reminder: saying where you're definitely going to go to college is a matter of general interest to the community. Saying where you've applied to college is rather less interesting. Listing all the places you have gotten in because you are proud of yourself is unseemly posturing....

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