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Tejas

I enjoyed this tournament a lot, thanks to Will and Jordan for writing it.

In response to Jordan's question, I didn't really find any of the answerlines too unusual or difficult to figure out. Actually, I thought you did a good job finding fresh clues for well-known answers.

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We have a spot available on our team, please PM me if you're interested.

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Can we get confirmation on the order of events and team size for Sunday?

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Caracas was only converted in three rooms?!? Were there a lot of negs?

The giveaway wasn't that easy, only mentioned that it was where Bolivar grew up and nothing about Venezuela.

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I'm looking for 2 more people for a team, please PM me if you're interested.

Edit: Stephen Eltinge has joined our team, still looking for one more.

Tejas · Re: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15) I agree with Max and Ben.

I agree with Max and Ben.

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We have an open spot on our team, please PM me if you are interested in playing.

Edit: Andrew Nadig has joined us.

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This was excellent, thanks to Ike, Billy and Andrew for writing.

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I can also staff this.

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I will be playing this with Mike Sorice, Mik Larsen and Sam Bailey.

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I fixed up the TriviaBot files and extracted all of the questions into one table. I'll try to create a classifier for it, PM me if you want to get the data.

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I'll play this

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I fully agree with all of the above, one minor point I'd like to add is that scorekeepers should be careful to ask players for full names and check their spelling, especially in the first round so stats people can enter it into SQBS.

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HSNCT is pretty full, but I'd play this if it was at NSC.

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I'd definitely like to see this, especially if it's closer to the MCMBR format than to last year's Tricon.

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I don't particularly appreciate this idea that a tournament, especially a trash tournament, must be agreed upon as being "terrible" or "excellent". I'm not sure why it's hard for you (and some of the other people who didn't have fun playing this tournament), that there might be ...

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I am looking for a teammate for this.

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I'm interested in going.

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I've only seen the first 11 packets of D2, but from what I saw the trash was mostly fine, with a couple exceptions. I think the Wizards-Cavs question was an example of the kinds of questions people don't like, it was something pretty irrelevant from long enough ago that most people have forgotten ab...

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I'll play this, PM me if you want to team up.

Edit: now playing with Kenji Golimlim, Doug Yetman and Mike Bentley.

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Muriel Axon wrote:Thank you to the person who got me a copy of Fargo and the book Creating Minnesota! Now maybe I'll be able to fake having gone to [EDIT: grade] school here.

You're welcome, hope you like it!

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I will have some random questions for this.

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Thanks to Ian Drayer for Bravely Default for the 3DS, I'm looking forward to it!

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What time will this start?

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This "getting frozen" tossup was pretty fun, but it's a good example of a problem in mACF question writing that's worth addressing. This question uses clues from five different franchises (Pokemon, Warcraft III, Avatar: the Last Airbender, The Incredibles, and the 2013 Disney film) but on...

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I would like to apologize for the screw-up that happened in the Penn packet, since the questions involved fell under my purview.

This is my fault, made an error formatting the set. The Ems tossup was not meant to be in the set, so my apologies for that.

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I would also like to thank Victor and Brian as well as all of the other editors for their work on the set. This was my first experience doing any editing and I want to thank everyone for helping me out and giving some feedback there. Also, thanks to Matt Jackson for help with some of the questions.

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Would play this

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Name: Tejas Raje
Email: [email protected]

Requests:
1. I'll steal Mike's book list, anything but the Shakespeare one.
2. Any good JRPG for PS1-3, Wii or 3DS except FF, Persona and Tales of Symphonia.

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Yes, that is correct, sorry if that was unclear.

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I planned on writing a random Pokemon/academic mashup packet, but now I have a long list of possible answers and no questions. I would greatly appreciate if someone wants to help out with this.

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Kythera and Ottoman Empire were probably dropped a little too early, makes the location and time period too clear. Maybe put those clues after those about the legal dispute? Also, based on his name I'm guessing Lord Elgin is Scottish and not English, if that makes a difference.

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I don't think the question was less legitimate because of its source, but I do think the answerline was too obscure for a tournament with only one trash question. Obviously these types of questions are going to be polarizing but having it as the first tossup was pretty confusing to me and should pro...

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Right here

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/768/

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:
TheRhymeMinister wrote:Izzy Izumi
You must be joking.

Finally, a HerculesKabuterimon question!

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What time are you planning on reading tonight?

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I think Stephen's right in that too many players would become spectators if you distribute the top players that way, especially at regular difficulty, which wouldn't really be fun for anyone involved. My best experiences have been playing on a well balanced team of players who were around my level o...

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Ian is staying at Cornell for the first semester, everyone else from the first team is leaving.

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Yeah, the main problems were that some categories were just too difficult to write fun tossups on and that tossup length was variable. As long as tossups are limited to 6-8 lines and certain categories are broadened to allow for more creativity, the tournament should continue. And also, don't includ...

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Anyone looking for a team member for the Sunday events?

EDIT: I am collaborating on a Tricon packet with people who are not going to this site, so if anyone wants to play without having written a packet, let me know.

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I know some non-quiz bowl people who would be interested in that.

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Thanks for writing this, Auroni, I really enjoyed it. In particular, I liked the balance between harder answers on very famous games (Red XIII, Jabu Jabu's Belly, Pikachu, etc.) and those on lesser known games. Only criticism I had was that there were a few tossups on sequels (Burnout 3, Spyro 2) th...

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I'd like to collaborate on a packet for this.

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Packet was read, Daniel and Dennis tied with 35, Ted had 30 and Herm and Cory had 20. Packet is attached.

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On the IRC at 9 today.

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In order to ease World Cup withdrawal, I will be reading a soccer packet next Monday at 9PM EST. I can read on either Skype or IRC depending on interest.

EDIT: This will be on Tuesday instead at the same time.

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I will be playing this

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I would like to play this.

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I am looking for a team for this, willing to write questions.

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I'd also be interested.

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