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At 20 packets, this year's Nationals set was shorter than the past several. I'm curious as to the reasoning behind writing a shorter set and I'm interested in opinions as to whether Nationals sets should contain closer to 20 or 25 packets.

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This is maybe the best article about quizbowl that has ever appeared in the Diamondback: http://www.dbknews.com/2017/04/28/maryl ... mpionship/

Unfortunately it does not quote Matt's poem about Jordan.

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As a moderator, I was not particularly a fan of this bonus, especially the third part: 13. For 10 points each, answer the following about Middle English lyric poetry. [10] The lyric beginning “Sumer is icumen in” (SOO-mer “is” ih-KOO-min “in”) repeatedly tells the animal it addresses to do this, fro...

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We were constrained by the number of teams that wanted to come (and the number of packets). We had a 3-stage format for 42 teams. As the field dropped to 40 teams, I drew up a 2-stage limited single-bye schedule for the tournament. (A format I will write up at some point.) Is there any thing in par...

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Serious prediction: Maryland will be the only school in the top bracket of ICT without a top-14 law school.

wcheng wrote:
vinteuil wrote:michigan wins but jordan gets the snitch
A, B, C, easy as 1, 2, 3...

I still have the power to get you kicked out of Maryland quizbowl, you know.

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10. Athlete and team required. He’s not Brendan Haywood, but immediately prior to this athlete’s time with this team, Laron Profit and a first-round pick were traded to the Magic. Popeye Jones and Chris Whitney each recorded their highest scoring-averages for this team while playing alongside this ...

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Max Schindler provided this helpful form several years ago: Dear Fred, While I admire the much effort you have put into your rankings, you seem to be chronically underrating [insert team you are affiliated with here]. However, you seem to be favoring [your rival], despite the fact that we have beate...

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Erik Christensen's post seems to me to be begging the question, premised as it is on the notion that sports answerlines are in general intrinsically harder than music answerlines. The (now publicly available) conversion data at this tournament really don't bear that out, at least in terms of tossups...

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Jakob, you've announced that you'll be running this tournament but also you can't actually read for this tournament or even disburse the packets because you plan on playing. Consequently it's unclear to me what service exactly you're providing that would justify receiving payment from the other peop...

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If you know that you'll be going to college next year and plan on playing quizbowl, post where you're headed in this thread. As always, only post in this thread if you've decided on a school; don't post in this thread to say that you're thinking about some schools but don't know for sure yet, althou...

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As always, this is an excellent display. Thanks to Ophir for that; I look forward to the day when stat reports like this are standard at every major tournament. One thing I hadn't noticed for previous tournaments is the "Players" sheet; the histogram of buzz points and the first buzz stati...

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Stats for this tournament are available here . Tennessee won every game and cleared the field. Georgia A finished second, and Georgia B finished third and took the undergraduate title. South Carolina B and Alabama tied for the Division II title. Thanks to everyone for showing up on a Sunday and than...

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I also wonder if it's worth loosening the criteria under which teams are no longer allowed to compete in Division 2. Obviously, the top high school players who routinely romp the top of the field each year shouldn't be allowed to come back and do it year after year. But should teams in the bottom h...

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Said person posting on the forums is hardly a secondhand account. Naveed continues to be in the right here. Will Alston posting on the forums is not a secondhand account either. Independent of everything else, Will Alston posting about how people told him that what he did was cool and good is, like...

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Is it really that wrong to publicly state that we had fun playing, and that others around us seemed to have fun playing too? Especially when the people who actually played didn't seem to have a major problem with it (and in some cases are baffled by the white-knighting of non-involved parties on th...

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This field was consolidated and all games were played on the Division II set. Georgia A won the tournament by beating Georgia Tech in the first game of an advantaged final. South Carolina finished three games ahead of the next-highest Division II team and was awarded the Division II title. Stats are...

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If it is necessary in terms of logistics to have a clock at ICT (I lack the information to know whether this is in fact the case), then I think that SCT should also have a clock, since it strikes me as somewhat less than optimal for a national championship tournament to be played on a fundamentally ...

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Coach Jim wrote:Will you be posting a field of teams, so we will know who we are playing against?

A current field list is available here.

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The tossup on the Islamic call to prayer featured a clue mentioning the addition of a phrase by Shia Muslims concerning Ali. That phrase is specifically added to the call to prayer as part of the Shahada, so an anti-prompt on "Shahada" would have been nice. My apologies: this was just a r...

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Since this apparently is an extremely onerous process, here is a direct link to the #quizbowl IRC channel. Choose a username and press "Go" and there's literally nothing else you have to do.

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I think the primary advantage of IRC is its openness. Facebook chats are nice for people who are already friends with each other, but anyone can come to IRC and be privy to the discussion happening in #quizbowl. There's always a danger with a community like the quizbowl community of insiderism, and ...

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Conan, what is good in life? Announcing your goddamn tournaments in a forums thread, that's what's good. It's cool, I didn't want to play an open set in my own backyard anyway! What the fuck? I have been led to understand that Columbia intentionally did not announce the tournament because they have...

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This post should contain every collegiate tournament played or announced for this year. If your tournament does not have a thread associated with it here, please rectify that.

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The tossup on the Islamic call to prayer featured a clue mentioning the addition of a phrase by Shia Muslims concerning Ali. That phrase is specifically added to the call to prayer as part of the Shahada, so an anti-prompt on "Shahada" would have been nice. My apologies: this was just a r...

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Editors 2 gives the name of Ted Kaczynski's classic treatise as Industrial Society and its Freedom , instead of its proper title Industrial Society and its Future . I'm assuming this was Other Academic, but I may be wrong. That was classified under Myth/Other Thought, but it has regardless been fix...

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The categories I edited were religion and other academic (including geography and current events). In general my goal was to give people the tournament they submitted, with the exception that way too many people submitted questions on African geography for that to work. This was my first time editin...

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This is the general announcement for NAQT Sectionals at Georgia Tech, to be hosted at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta on Sunday, February 5, 2017. A full list of hosts can be viewed on NAQT's website. Please note that this tournament will be held on Sunday instead of Saturday due to u...

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This is a great tournament that everyone should play.

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I can't take Fifth Harmony seriously after this (mildly NSFW?), which is undoubtedly catchier than many actual Fifth Harmony songs. Very relatedly, I wish I could have voted for more "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" songs instead of actual songs. The list of 2016 songs I've listened to more than &qu...

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I was delighted by this question from the Oklahoma/Brown packet at this year's Regionals: A thinker who is most famously associated with this practice held a widely attended and acclaimed Prayer for Interfaith Peace, which he then followed up with a somewhat less-acclaimed prayer to terminate the Je...

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For what it's worth, I don't really intend to make this a "common" practice. I took a trip to LA to have getaway from the cold, stay and catch up with some of my fraternity brothers, hang out with a good friend of mine, and do one of the things I love most - play quizbowl, in person, with...

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So, the Caltech club registered for the closed tournament in question (presumably paying real US currency for the privilege) with the expectation that they would be playing teams composed, like their own team, of real students enrolled at the university in question. Then, having paid to play this cl...

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I'll let Jordan and Maryland step in here to give a full response to this, but Naveed this does seem needlessly aggressive. Will Alston got permission to play this tournament from Jordan at the UCLA site; I almost applied for the same thing because it's a Jordan Brownstein tournament. I certainly d...

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I'd like to gauge the community's opinion of this practice, since it is apparently an open secret that it is condoned in Southern California. At the UCLA mirror of Terrapin this year, for instance, half of the second-place UC San Diego A team was made of individuals who are not actually students at ...

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So, I understand that almost all the books referenced in that tossup refer to the "working class" in their titles, but "proletariat" in common usage is often basically a synonym for the working class. Is there a reason not to just accept this, especially given that some of these...

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This is the general announcement for the Georgia Tech mirror of ACF Regionals, to be hosted at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday , February 19, 2017. More information about ACF Regionals, including packet deadlines, can be viewed at the original announcement for the ...

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How did this happen? Which players were ineligible and why? In my time playing quizbowl, this is the second tournament whose champion has forfeited the title. The first was the first tournament I ever played, the Maryland site of ACF Fall 2014. That tournament was won by a Virginia team featuring hi...

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In the first game between Ohio State A and Chicago A, Ohio State is credited with 10.00 PPB and Chicago with 13.50 PPB. Is this an error? It doesn't seem right.

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Could you post the tossups on Al-Baqarah and swords? 12. This section of a holy text describes how a man passes by a ruin and asks “How will God bring this to life after its death?”; that man is then killed and revived after a hundred years. It recalls how the angels Harut and Marut declared that “...

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I'm not sure what these complaints about South Asian content are based on - South Asia is a region that is home to a very large portion of the world's population, and has had enormous cultural influence on other regions of the world. Dedicating 2% of the tournament to important humanities topics re...

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Congratulations to Florida A for winning the tournament in an exciting one-game final over Georgia A, coming back from a 165-10 deficit to secure the game on the final tossup and winning 270-255. Thanks to all the teams that came out and to Eric and Bryn Douglass for staffing. After the tournament, ...

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Prelim and combined stats are up.

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I agree with Charlie here. Eric Mukherjee is, in my mind, clearly the best Islam writer in quizbowl, but I don't think that part of the distribution suffered terribly because it was written by Will this year. I particularly enjoyed the bonus about Our Lady of Fatima; Marian apparitions are a great t...

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:When is this happening?

Eventually, but not this fall! It turns out graduate school is hard.

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I'm curious about this answerline from Packet 4: 5. Descriptive answers acceptable. One book by Eugen Weber studied a 34-year period in which these people, originally “savages,” were nationalized into citizens of their country. These people attacked the homes of their oppressors during the Great Fea...

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This year, there will be four* packet-submission tournaments: ACF Fall, ACF Regionals, ACF Nationals, and Chicago Open. Other than ACF tournaments and Chicago Open, there have been exactly two* packet-submission events in the last three years: DEES in fall 2014 and STIMPY in spring 2015. It seems th...

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It has come to our attention that hosting this tournament on its regularly scheduled date would require the payment of $245.60 to the university but holding the tournament the next day would not. As a result, this tournament has been moved to Sunday, November 13, 2016. Hopefully this does cause any ...

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This is a good thread. If your tournament absolutely can't get through seven rounds before lunch, you're taking too long. Obviously if you want to get through 13 rounds (which should be the expectation for a non-novice collegiate tournament) and then potentially play a final, you need to be able to ...

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I have a few suggestions for how this tournament could have run better. These suggestions have in general already been communicated to the Georgia club, but I'm making them public so that other people can learn also. 1) The schedule called for the fourteen teams to be divided into two groups of seve...

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The Georgia Institute of Technology will host a collegiate quizbowl tournament on Sunday , November 13, 2016. This tournament will use this year's Terrapin question set, written by the nationally renowned Maryland Academic Quiz Team under the dutiful supervision of quizbowl wunderkind Jordan Brownst...

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