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I've made a version of the script that the PAveMEnT team used to generate audio tossups publicly available in this repository . Instructions for cloning, setting up, and using the script are in the readme. Much of the credit for this is owed to Young Fenimore Lee and others who contributed their ef...

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I would like to announce we will be running tournaments on film side event On Cinema at the Buzzer and history side event COLONIAL on Sunday, August 6 at the same venue as the CO main event. At the end of the day, we will run a shootout on CANONINFLATION for those who wish to stick around for it. Mo...

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Hi all, we are pleased to announce that we will begin playtesting for Chicago Open 2023 in the next two weeks. To sign up to playtest, please fill out this Google form, and I will contact you with next steps. We look forward to hearing from you.

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This has been pushed back so Caleb and I can work on CO for the summer and not worry about writing other stuff for now. We'll keep people posted as to when we'll write TM2.

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I'll keep track of the registrations in this post and keep them up-to-date via edits. If you're on this list, and I haven't gotten back to you yet with a distribution, hang tight — I'll get it to you ASAP. You're free to email me as a reminder if I still haven't replied in a bit, though. If you're o...

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Hello all, I would like to announce that I am looking for a head editor and editing team for an upcoming ACF Fall-plus college set (somewhere between 1 and 1.5 dots) called C ollege Q uizbowl: A fter H annukah, or CQAH for short, intended to be used for tournaments being run in January 2024. I would...

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I'm not sure that spectrum is perfectly linear. In skilled hands, I think a film like The Godfather , or Star Wars , or Raiders of the Lost Ark is much more likely to yield a good academic question than something like Lady Bird or Parasite . Things that are incredibly famous (including films) have ...

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I am committing to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio for a PhD in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, specifically poetry. I will be an hour drive away from Columbus and intend on playing tournaments in the Midwest, even if that entails soloing.

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benchapman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:25 pm Decided to toss together my list of the top 8 D2 teams:

1. Waterloo
2. Rutgers B
3. Chicago D
4. Claremont
4. Stanford
6. McMaster
7. Princeton
8. Inver Hills

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I'm not participating in the production of this iteration of Pavement, so I'm going to play. Please contact me if you want to play this tournament together. I can promise some sick buzzes but very little knowledge of old, non-jazz music.

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Will play. Must win, considering the circumstances. Don't be caught slacking. Join my team.

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Hey, great project, and I think it has good utility and sounds good. Couple of minor things I noticed, on the front page if you select categories your previous input into the field for "difficulty" disappears. I guess the only other thing that isn't trivial is that I would like to be able ...

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OPEN CALL FOR EDITORS Hey all, I've been coordinating the assembly of a writing team for this year's Chicago Open. We're looking to be in pretty good shape in terms of editor category coverage, and we have a long list of writers, which is good because it'll truly take a village to get this set done ...

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Having asked Alex (Fregeau) for his blessing, I'll be reaching out to people who posted in this thread and other known good editors to assemble a team. I probably won't edit unless it's really necessary, which doesn't seem like it'll be the case. But I will be down to help out with the logistics alo...

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unsure if signaling the time you have on a bonus by counting on your fingers as a mod is necessarily good unless everyone did it (because of then having some marginal advantage when playing with that mod) but then again if a player asked me, a mod, to do so, i don't see any problem with doing so, so...

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This reading will be postponed until sometime next week because I haven't finished the new packets yet. I think Mike and John are still planning to read their packets today, though, if you're interested in those. I apologize for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for more info.

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For Festivus, I wrote 48 common link audio tossups (identical in format to the audio tossups from Imaginary Landscape, PAveMEnt, and MARCATo) based around popular music genres. I’m planning on writing a 20 tossup audio packet on classical music (distributed the same as the classical music from IL 4 ...

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As we get closer to the tournament date, the CO editing team would like to reiterate that we’re looking for playtesters. Please fill out the form in the above post to express interest - it would also probably be helpful to contact a member of the editing team (preferably Kurtis Droge or Austin Brown...

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This is getting postponed to either winter 2022 or summer 2023 because of other ongoing obligations.

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Caleb Kendrick has expressed interest in writing this with me for the summer of 2023. We're still looking for writers, and would also be interested in a head editor-like figure overseeing difficulty and quality.

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Hey quizbowl luminaries and olds, I have a question. When I was a senior in high school (which was around 5 years ago now), I was really enthusiastic about philosophy in quizbowl, and managed to convince Will Nediger to help me write a tournament entirely on philosophy and other thought. However, I ...

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This tournament happened and ran successfully. The combined stats can be found here . Congratulations to the champions Mario's Time Machine (consisting of the mysterious duo of Amogh Kulkarni and… Amogh Kulkarni!), and the runner-up, Wilde 1 - Keats and Yeats 0 (consisting of Stephen Liu, Anderson W...

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This tournament has expanded to 6 teams. There is still potential room for expansion, so please contact me ASAP if you're interested in signing up.

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By request, I have made a team formation spreadsheet which can be found here.

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This tournament is now open, rather than closed. Registration will be open until midnight pacific on Friday, March 18th.

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Quick announcement: the registration deadline for the closed MRNA mirror on March 19th will be this Wednesday on March 16th at midnight pacific. We will consider making the mirror open (rather than closed) if we do not have enough interest for the mirror by the registration deadline.

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This tournament will be held on March 19th. Please email me (instructions in original post) to register. Registration will close on March 17th 16th at midnight, PST. This is also an open call for volunteer staffers. Staffers unaffiliated with a school attending the tournament will receive $40 for th...

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This post is reserved for field updates. The field is currently capped at 6 teams, pending staff availability. This tournament is full. Please email me or PM/DM me to express interest as a player or staffer. If there is sufficient interest, we will do our best to expand the field. Current field (6/6...

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I am pleased to announce the online closed open mirror of MRNA VACCINE on either March 19th or March 26th . If you are considering playing this tournament, please vote in the above poll in the next 5 days. After the poll ends, the finalized date of the tournament will be announced, as per the result...

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DumbJaques wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:47 pm Would you be able to post a field update, or at least respond to emails sent to the club account?

Did anything come of this? Is there room left in the field?

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The packet has been posted on the database and can be found here.

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This happened last Sunday on Halloween, where I read 13 power-marked tossups. I wrote 11 more tossups to make a 24-tossup full packet. I'll read the remaining 11 tossups on Thursday at 10pm Eastern in the Discord server again. If you'd like the date/time to be moved, please let me know. I'll post t...

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This happened last Sunday on Halloween, where I read 13 power-marked tossups. I wrote 11 more tossups to make a 24-tossup full packet. I'll read the remaining 11 tossups on Thursday at 10pm Eastern in the Discord server again. If you'd like the date/time to be moved, please let me know. I'll post th...

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This will tentatively happen tonight at 10pm Eastern in the Quizbowl Discord server. Let me know if you want to hear the questions again another time and I can probably do it.

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Hi, I've written a Halloween Contemporary Poetry Half-Packet. It is 10 tossups about poetry that generally prioritizes poetry from the past 20 years, though some late 20th-century poetry is included as well. The difficulty is open-level. The subject matter has nothing to do with Halloween, I just wr...

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Hi all, I’m in the process of writing a side event called Modern Music . This is a set exclusively about popular music (meaning, exclusive of jazz and classical music) since 1990. The difficulty is open -level. There will be 6 packets of 20 powermarked tossups. The distribution is as follows: 5 1990...

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Against my better judgement, I've decided to make this thread so everyone can populate it with their topsters charts. Let me explain: There's a website called neverendingchartrendering.org AKA Topsters 2. On this site, you can make custom charts of album covers (and movie posters, though all the ima...

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I've accepted my admission offer from The New School's MFA program in creative writing (dual concentration in nonfiction and poetry) for this upcoming fall. I'm debating studying a lot over the summer to try to become a generalist and solo tournaments…

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Hi all, as a member of this community (sorta) who will hopefully play a bit more quizbowl in their modest life, I'd like to invite you all to a poetry reading I'm organizing with some friends. Watching will be open to the public (and free, ofc). I will introduce friends of mine, they will read their...

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Thank you for removing TJ and Mission San Jose from your rankings - doing so, and explaining your decision, is an important statement.

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Hip Hop and R&B (3/0) - 70s-90s Hip Hop - 70s-90s Hip Hop - Contemporary Hip Hop and R&B Did you mean to say "70s-90s Hip Hop" twice? Other than that and the questions Robert asked, this looks great I think this is saying that there will be 2/0 70s-90s Hip Hop and 1/0 Contemporary...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:01 pm Can there be like a team formation sheet? I'm kind of interested in playing, but I don't want to register until I have a partner secured.

Sorry about that - just fixed this, look above for a team formation sheet! :)

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The final distribution change, and an addendum to answer questions that have been asked privately to me about the distribution, are as follows (the distribution change reflects a decrease in jazz and an increase in soul, blues, pre-1960 rock, country, and folk): 2 pop music from 1950-1989 2 pop musi...

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StockierAsp9634 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:30 pm Which section of https://quizbowlpackets.com/ is it on?

The collegiate section; you can also find it here.

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The distribution has been updated to reflect an increase in "pop music" representation: 2 pop music from 1950-1989 2 pop music from 1990-2020 1 soul, blues, folk, country, pre-1960 rock 3 jazz / Great American Songbook 1 electronic music / electronica / house music 3.5 rap, hip-hop, and R&...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:09 pm It's not unreasonable, but I guess I don't see the particular attraction--is the field and rosters exactly the same?

No, the idea is that the field and rosters could be different between the tournaments, as well as the mirrors of the tournaments.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:35 pm Am I not understanding Option B? Is it literally just two different tournaments? Do the results of the first tournament result in seeding or placement for the second?

They're not intended to result in placement or seeding for the second. Does this strike you as odd or unreasonable?

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