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MorganV

One of my teammates once protested a bonus for liberal bias. We got the question right, but he protested anyways.

(The bonus DID blatantly attack some conservative figure or another, to be fair.)

MorganV

So, with seven packets, my thoughts are: We get 8, 16, or 24 teams, break into 4 brackets of 4, play three rounds. The top two teams and the bottom two teams from each bracket are sorted into two sets of parallel brackets of four; three more rounds and then a crossover game to decide final placement...

MorganV

With a few days remaining, we are at 11 teams. If anyone can register an additional team or has not yet registered and is interested in doing so, please contact me ASAP. otherwise, we will scrape together a third house team.

MorganV

My bad. Fixed now.

MorganV

Considering the demand seems likely to outstrip the number of staffers, we will probably not be able to do doubles, unless people would be interested in some sort of four-doubles-teams-per-room schedule. I'm going to tentatively say quads. People can start forming teams here: https://docs.google.com...

MorganV

Field updated. We are now more than half full - make sure to send me your registrations if you are intending to come!

MorganV

A literature side-event written by the illustrious Max Schindler, "Schindler's Lit" will be run Saturday night at HSNCT and possibly elsewhere if demand exists. It will consist of 7 packets of 20 power- and superpower-marked tossups, slightly easier than regular collegiate difficulty. The ...

MorganV

This just sort of randomly popped into my head, but how did people take to this question? It was in Round 11, so I think it was part of a half-packet played. Not sure, though. One group created for this cause organized a meeting that is the subject of the film Winter Soldier. The plaintiffs in Tink...

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Also, just so that we don't get too off topic: Morgan, if there is interest for two unaffiliated teams (E Team A and B), is there any way we would be able to bypass the moderator requirement? The entire reason we can't go as Metea Valley is because our coach (the only able moderator we would be abl...

MorganV

Field updated.

Housecarl Shield Wall wrote:Will the JAMES set's trash packet be played? If so, how?

If people are interested, we can for sure do a shootout on the trash packet after the tournament or at lunch. I can't see us having a real side event with only one packet, but a shootout should be fine.

MorganV

Field (11/12):

Loyola Academy (2)
St Joseph (IN)
Stevenson (2)
Belvidere North
"E Team" (2)
IMSA
Carbondale
Kalakuta Republic

MorganV

Loyola Academy in Wilmette, IL will be hosting a mirror of the JAMES set, co-written by Thomas Jefferson HS and LASA, on April 13th, 2013. Due to staffing constraints (ICT is this weekend) we'll be instituting a soft cap of 12 teams, playing a full round robin for 11 games + ACF finals. If there is ...

MorganV

I've updated the field. As I wrote above, the field currently consists of St. Joseph High School as well as an undefined number of Michigan teams (at least one). We're waiting for information from Brian McPeak of Maryland about the possibility that our site (and maybe others) may allow teams that w...

MorganV

You can see that the set was pretty reasonable at the bottom of the field. All teams were over 10 ppb, and I saw plenty of exciting-looking scoresheets throughout the day, even in the bottom bracket. On the other hand, I think this tournament was too hard at the top. The top bracket teams were all ...

MorganV

I did not play it, but since James obviously did not know enough about the clues to be able to confidently answer "Also Sprach Zarathustra", I would assume it was an acceptable hard part.

MorganV

The Mandela question was wrong in the packet. The Miles Davis and Billie Holiday questions were right in the packet. The question after Mandela was Mies van der Rohe. Oh, in our room _van der Rohe_ was accepted despite _Mies_ being his proper surname and the usual underlined part in questions; agai...

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The Nelson Mandela tossup claimed that he gave a speech called "I am afraid to die" rather than "I am prepared to die", unless that was moderator error. I also remember noticing an inaccuracy in the tossup directly following the Mandela tossup, but I can't remember what that was ...

MorganV

Minor error: Bonus 12 in packet 13 claims the Rubaiyat was translated by noted sunken ship Edmund Fitzgerald rather than poet Edward Fitzgerald.

MorganV

What I find even more surprising than the fact that Ian's computers didn't rank Cistercian is the fact that Ian's computers DID rank Bellarmine, considering Sameer has still not played anything this year. How did that happen?

MorganV

BMI is actually the week AFTER Ultima.

Loyola students will comprise 1-2 teams.

MorganV

As is, double-round-robin in Standard and round robin + playoffs of four and four in Competitive gives everyone ten guaranteed matches, maintains the existing divisions, and has minimal rebracketing delay. Of course, more teams signing up could make combining a more viable option.

MorganV

Will you post initial card assignments tonight?

MorganV

IMSA will win every single thing NAQT, probably uncontestedly and by large margins; Loyola will be the best mACF team at least at the beginning of the year tournaments, IMSA will be second but certainly have the capability to challenge and overcome Loyola, especially as the year progresses since IM...

MorganV

Ian Torres had three more tossups in our round vs. "Academy of Carpentry" than he is credited for. We had 18 tossups that round, not 15.

MorganV

I can't make that time, is there any chance the matches could be switched or our match moved to Tuesday?

MorganV

The leadin to the Atlas tossup was non-uniquely identifying; it essentially stated "This figure's brother Menoetius was thrown into Tartarus", which thus applies to Prometheus and Epimetheus who are the brothers of Atlas.

MorganV

Can't do Wednesdays; would prefer next Tuesday

MorganV

I'll play

MorganV

Protobowl seems to be offline at the moment. Is maintenance/updating going on?

EDIT: It seems to work when I use Safari, but not on Firefox.

MorganV

Having played DII ICT last year would not require you to write a packet either way, because the rules say you had to have played a college tournament prior to September of last year to be packet-required.

MorganV

It's been crashing a LOT. Other than that it's excellent.

MorganV

If you're on a Mac, you have to do the same thing as it says Linux users should do.

MorganV

So this packet was hilariously too hard for the field and should be toned down for next week.

MorganV

Paula Pareto Optimality wrote:
Off To See The Lizard wrote:I'll play, provided we don't do Illinois open again -_-
How do you not like tossups on Karl Popper or Endymion? There should be more!

'Cause Karl Popper is a REALLY hard answerline that never comes up at hard high school tournaments

Sign me up.

MorganV

if it makes any difference, this new date is also an SAT date that would make it difficult/impossible for at least two teams (Macomb and ourselves) who would like to come.

MorganV

There were some rumblings of it possibly being mirrored at KABO or one of its mirrors.

MorganV

I'm afraid I must concede with a mere 27 =P

MorganV

the fact that we go to more tournaments than any other team in the country More than Northmont? I heard their coach took Sam to upwards of 30 tournaments last year. That would be pretty impressive. My claim is based off of Fred's rankings, where we're ahead of Northmont by around ~7 statlines (not ...

MorganV

Haha excellent! I'm sorry, I should not have tried to overgeneralize given only the past couple years of us being bad at comp.

MorganV

I guess I'll go ahead and analyze teams. Last year, Illinois was probably the deepest any single state has ever been in quizbowl: I feel that any of our top fifteen teams could have placed in the top five of any other state (except possibly Texas). However, with dozens of skilled players graduating,...

MorganV

This is all a moot point anyways, I forgot this was my father's birthday so I'll be in Michigan this weekend. I may or may not end up sending you a packet.

MorganV

Why couldn't it be this weekend, I literally was just in New Jersey for two days =P I'm going to tentatively express interest in attending although I doubt I'll actually be able to get out there (Like Daniel, I've also played ATTACK so I wouldn't be able to do that anyways). If I don't, I could prob...

MorganV

More teams seem to have dropped out: Is the format changing as a result?

MorganV

Will difficulty increase between the prelims and the playoffs like last year?

MorganV

Ryan Rosenberg has kindly set up a google docs that people can make teams with, so feel free to sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... 4eVE#gid=0

MorganV

The score for our game against Belvidere North is off - I have it as 320-235, which Dylan Minarik's twitter updates seem to corroborate.

Thanks to Dan-Don for running a great tournament, and, of course, for letting us use his rooms afterward for trash.

MorganV

^That sounds pretty accurate.

MorganV

Considering more sets were written this year than any single area was able to mirror, do you really see a lack of sets as being a problem?

EDIT: Also I'll probably play this, teammates pending.

MorganV · Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE I would play this as well.

I would play this as well.

MorganV

For rankings purposes Kiev was missing several key players and thus should be considered "Kiev B+".

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