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heterodyne

So all of the recs so far in this thread are pretty great. I especially wanna get behind Gunnerkrigg Court and Girl Genius, both of which are phenomenal. I'm also gonna throw in theartistisdead.com, which does a bunch of cool things with the form and isn't too long, and The Non-Adventures of Wondere...

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Bruce Lou will be playing for Berkeley as far as I know.

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gustavadolf wrote:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _no_final/

(Romero didn't run ACF Fall last year)

The pertinent one for this year's packet requirement is 2013, which he did run.

heterodyne

Kinda off-thread now, but you need to unknowingly get dragged to only one collegiate event as a ninth grader to meet ACF's packet submission requirement two years later. So outside of Texas, there is only one high schooler who would have to write a packet this year. In TX there are likely a few mor...

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Kinda off-thread now, but you need to unknowingly get dragged to only one collegiate event as a ninth grader to meet ACF's packet submission requirement two years later. So outside of Texas, there is only one high schooler who would have to write a packet this year. In TX there are likely a few mor...

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It could also be that Behemoth is one of the most iconic things from the books, being on the cover of several editions.

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Because you are writing packets for YOURSELF. You are playing the tournament! It's not like those packets are taken and used for some tournament you will never play.

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Right. And they are paying for your packets! See, it's great how this packet sub thing works, isn't it?

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So just to get this straight: you shouldn't have to write packets for college students to play on, but they should have to write packets for you to play on?

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B) What IS ridiculous is that ACF expects high schoolers who are barred from college tournaments to write questions for them anyways. The two possible ways for making this feasible are either taking away the writing submission requirement or allowing the questions submitted by high schoolers to onl...

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Xochiquetzal wrote:Isn't a major reason high schoolers played collegiate tournaments the opportunity to play against better teams?

That's user-end. My point was that by downgrading it to HS only ACF doesn't have to put in any less work per mirror

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I could understand if ACF felt that lowering their price point would lead to bigger revenues or some other positive effect, and that would be reasonable. What I don't think is reasonable is assuming that this is something they are obliged to do. You're paying for the same product as before, from ACF...

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It's completely reasonable for ACF to not want high schoolers at their official tournaments! This ties into quizbowl's professionalism problem. ACF is designed for teams representing colleges to compete and that is muddled when high schoolers can come play. Given that, why would they redesign their ...

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I fail to see how "you don't get any special treatment" is "unfair." I don't really think that the elite class of high school teams that are playing ACF Fall need any special dispensation in order to motivate them to play or whatever; ACF has produced a product for college novice...

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I'm fully aware of his point. You're missing mine, which is that the writing requirements aren't onerous for the very small minority of HS teams that meet them. Illinois has run a HS mirror of ACF fall for several years on essentially these rules and it has never failed to fill.

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If you've played enough to meet ACFs packet submission requirement then I think you can handle a half packet of fall level questions.

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The reason we don't have a Ladue 2013 statline where they powered 80% of the questions is because, by and large, good teams don't play A sets. There's also the fact that Charlie was pretty clearly being hyperbolic, and 70% power rate is not some magical benchmark of too easy for the team.

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I don't fully understand why a good team would play an A-set, since they stop being fun pretty quickly. If a-sets are all you have in the early fall, it seems like hosting a housewrite or something would be better than playing a tournament that is clearly below your level.

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"My uncle at Nintendo told me I couldn't make a Facebook group, but I can't tell you the reason or he'd get fired."

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Jordan and I are not friends. I do not expect this to change. That being said... He did things like revive Hybrids and keep VETO alive (both of which should have died off after that summer). The unfortunate resurgent popularity of those tournaments and subsequent “fun” events like MacVanity and Cot...

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I added my name to the "free agents" thing on the spreadsheet, but I'd like to note here that I'm in need of a team for SHEIKH. I can't really be relied on to get many points, but those that I do will probably be in euro history.

heterodyne

That said, quizbowl's job isn't to make new things true; if the fact that a person was gay truly has no bearing on the reasons that person is notable, then it shouldn't be asked about. More specifically, if there is no meaningful nexus between the person's homosexuality and the reasons the person i...

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People with common experiences and interests occasionally want to interact

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Since there appear to be quite a few, a Facebook group for LGBTQ quizbowlers has magically appeared! This, notably, does not include allies. While your efforts and sentiments are certainly appreciated, this group is intended for those who identify as non-straight or non-cis only. For obvious reasons...

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You may find the pseudonym idea silly, but in many cases it's necessary to avoid school retribution.

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We did this quite a bit. There are a few things to keep in mind. First, make sure that your transportation, logistics, and payment are worked out well in advance. Second, ensure that those hosting are aware that you will be attending unaffiliated. This could be an issue due to restrictions set by th...

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Along that line, are middle schoolers and the best 19-year-old players in the world playing on the same questions (even if in separate fields)? You can't write questions that are playable by the former and adequately distinguish the latter. There are middle schoolers in this field?? I'd like to inc...

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So in what world are there 140 World War One answerlines that would be appropriate for this audience?

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I think my experiences prove this patently false. This is pretty obvious anecdotal evidence, and for History Bowl to have led to you (and several other schools in your specific region) into quizbowl doesn't disprove anyone's larger point, especially since I kind of doubt the idea that the constant ...

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MorganV wrote:
heterodyne wrote:Auburn returns the far and away best player in the state. Depending on his improvement, Auburn could be the best in the state by the end of the year.
I'm pretty sure Usman graduated, actually

Wait, really? I retract everything I have said

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Auburn returns the far and away best player in the state. Depending on his improvement, Auburn could be the best in the state by the end of the year.

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Transsexual is generally not a word that's preferred by trans people, btw, but it's still used by some media outlets and in conversation by some, so it probably should be acceptable.

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I'm not sure how middle school quizbowl works in Alabama, but for me the transition was almost entirely one of difficulty. The canon is going to expand and it can at times seem precipitous. I would suggest reading through high school regular difficulty packets and studying them to familiarize yourse...

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RETRACTION: I note in the podcast that I believe that Kion You of rancho Bernardo is a sophomore. He is actually a junior.

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Due to Kai Smith's HEINOUS BETRAYAL, there is now an open spot on our team.

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This might not be effective, but I read the wiki page/easily accessible secondary source (Stanford philosophy, etc) for whatever the answerline is and make flashcards of all the individual clues (those that make sense in flashcard form, ofc.) Then, when going back over those flashcards, if I can't r...

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From our team's perspective, we would prefer splitting it if we can't finish around midnight on Friday, since sleep is good and competition is the next day and stuff.

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On the way home from Loyburn, somewhere around Lasalle/Peru we began to smell some burning rubber which was quickly followed by some loud sounds and our coach managing to get us over to the side. The tire had exploded. I unfortunately don't have any pictures, but essentially the tread of the wheel h...

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Most of my team is going to be interested in playing this, hopefully at PACE.

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I think there's already a thread for funny negs, and this isn't it.

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Ultimately, it comes down to what you set your criteria as. If you choose one on one on PACE questions then obviously specialists take a major hit. If you choose theoretical contribution when added to a team, then all but the highest-level generalists are going to take a hit. Since this is Fred's pr...

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote: Because I can do it in May, and we already have a "announce best players after nationals" award.

Right. Forgot that existed.

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Just wondering, why not wait until nationals is over? It seems like that is the best way to compare players against each other.

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What's up with the weird High Tech a/b inversion?

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I will be going to the University of Chicago and hope to play quizbowl there.

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dtaylor4 wrote:
ACantataforLiebowitz wrote:Mythology = Literature
How IHSA does not consider short stories to be a thing (novels Harrison Bergeron and The Open Boat)
1) Myth is explicitly under the lit distribution.
2) Harrison Bergeron isn't a novel...

This was Nathaniel's point.

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Except for the fact that it is much more reasonable to buzz on "This Romanian sculptor..." when you are aware that you definitely aren't able to name any other Romanian sculptors than it is to answer with "Self-Reliance" on "This Ralph Waldo Emerson essay..." even thou...

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After sectionals, I only have one word: versine.

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With respect to Matt's food thing...in my day, most kids who saw food at a tournament ate it and were glad to get it. Even the weeks-old packaged Day's Inn danishes were scarfed up in record time. But in the last 7-10 years, since my kids started being teenagers, we've seen all kinds of food, broug...

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Except for the fact that it is much more reasonable to buzz on "This Romanian sculptor..." when you are aware that you definitely aren't able to name any other Romanian sculptors than it is to answer with "Self-Reliance" on "This Ralph Waldo Emerson essay..." even thou...

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