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EDIT: Never mind, saw the other topic.

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As this is probably the best-for-my-interests side event I'm going to see until Guy writes the Louis Hjelmslev Memorial in 2011 or so, I'll definitely try to play this should MO or a suitable mirror be close to wherever I end up next year.

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I haven't played that many tournaments recently, but is using progressively narrower pronouns to aid in pyramidality something that's commonly done? I'm talking about something like the Achewood tossup I submitted for GARBAGE, where starting off with "this webcomic" would severely limit th...

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CMU is 3-0 at lunch after beating Henry Gorman, Cameron Orth, and Hunter B. That's about all I have for you right now.

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Problem solved. ...and with that, I find myself quizbowl-unemployed again. I got the impression from Josh Sokol that Swarthmore might be in need of some extra ACF Regs moderators (which would make sense, given their field size). If you're still looking to read somewhere, I'd suggest getting in touc...

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Shcool wrote:We also could give you some advice on which tournaments to attend if you told us where you are located. Unfortunately, your school name is not helpful in this regard because it is common.

This topic would seem to indicate that this Village Academy is the one in question.

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Perhaps the most fun thing about Prison Bowl was never having to leave my room - packets in PDF, scoresheets in Excel, stats-entering via Taft, protest-resolution through IRC...same amount of time, none of the running around. I would be pretty happy if more TDs set up this way... I ran the MLA Open...

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Registered.

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wexs883198215 wrote:Did Charter A really get shut out by Stuyvesant 175-0?!?!

Seeing as how they got 13 tossups that round, I'm assuming it's just another typo.

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As this is probably about as close as a quizbowl tournament will ever get to where I'm currently living, I'm interested in getting a team together for this, ideally submitting a packet by the next deadline. I've already written a few questions; if you're looking for free agents or if you're one your...

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Yeah, thanks definitely go to Penn for putting this set together and hosting it; [various notes edited due to possible mirror]. The matches were generally also very competitive--I think our team had three games all day that didn't go down to the last question--which is always a plus. Is this set get...

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I fixed what was said above (Bryce, yours only appears in the "combined"). Here's everything: Prelims Combined Thanks to all who came and helped staff, especially Matt Weiner, Katy Peters, and Brice Russ, and to Jonathan for agreeing to play solo to fill out the field. I hope a good time ...

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Stats through the 13-round prelims are here. I didn't get a chance to enter the final games, but I will do so some time today after Penn Bowl Trash. Prelims It's not a huge deal at all, but if you want to be completely accurate I played the last two games marked under 'Adam' for the School for Wives.

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I can probably help moderate this, if necessary.

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DumbJaques wrote:Swarthmore: Host this.

At the risk of doing nothing but attending trash tournaments, I'll be interested in forming/joining a team/writing a partial packet should this happen.

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I'd probably play this on the off chance that I'm helping moderate at a tournament that's hosting it, though I suspect I'd be getting a lot more b) than a).

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I mentioned this in the trash topic already, but I should also be free to read for this.

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So while really bored during presentations, I checked the survey results and based on the published changes to the distribution, NAQT is missing 3% of their questions. Im not accusing anyone of anything; I just found this and was curious. I think Dwight covered this here , though I'm not sure if hi...

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Out of curiosity, were Myers Park or Gaston Day School in attendance?

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Siverus Snape wrote:Much better, freer, and less bloated than WinRAR: http://www.7-zip.org/

They're making you pay for WinRAR now? I didn't even check. Yeah, go with 7-Zip.

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WinRAR.

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As it's looking increasingly likely that I'm going to be living near Philly next spring, I'd be interested in both playing this (as a free agent) and moderating for Penn Bowl, if y'all need people.

UPDATE: I should definitely be able to do both of these, barring some crazy circumstance.

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I might be interested in participating in this in some capacity, particularly the trash, if I end up in Philly next spring as planned.

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different base prices depending on team size This is no longer the pricing regime, and I don't think it was when you used Taft either. The price per tournament is $25 regardless of tournament size. Sorry for the ambiguity. I was referring to TAFT's ability to display the total costs owed by each in...

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I seem to recall having some problems adequately describing the cost layout (different base prices depending on team size) when I used TAFT this spring. I could be completely mistaken, though, and in any case I found it really, really useful for MLAO.

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Hey, Sam! I understand that Robinson had a marching band competition or similar event that kept most of their team from being able to attend. I'm sure they'll be out in force elsewhere, though. Anyway, I just received the stats this morning: they can be found at http://www.unc.edu/~rbruss/thc08 . Th...

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Raleigh Charter A defeated Cave Spring in the finals; RCA's Peter Schultz was also top scorer. NCSSM A and Early College A were in the consolation match, though I forget right-off who won. Sara will be around with a more comprehensive update sometime in the near future and I'll upload stats as soon ...

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Not that my performance at Gunpei was very inspiring, but I might try to make it to an East Coast mirror of this.

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I'm about 95% certain this is indeed the case, though they may not have announced it yet because they're planning on changing the date. With the football schedule and the already-announced tournaments, though, I'm afraid that might be rather hard to do...

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I'd like to get in on this if possible, though the only thing I'll be doing during the arts and history half is learning.

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I've got a family commitment on Saturday and won't be able to play in the Open. but I'm planning on playing on Sunday. I've got a potential teammate, but I'm waiting on him to confirm that he's coming before I say anything official. That would be me; I'm about 90% sure that I can play on Sunday (an...

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For the record, my Dinosaur Comics question, first clue selected by Matt Weiner: According to the main character, farmers call horses "nature's dominoes." Minor, mostly unseen, characters include Mr. Tusks, the vice-mayor of Tiny Towne, Batman's floating head, and some very creepy raccoon...

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"Dinosaur Comics" :shock: EDIT: How do you write a tossup on that? I couldn't help myself and just came up with one for DC off the top of my head. Were this an actual question, the leadin should probably be replaced with a plot point from the comic itself, but this should still show that ...

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Let's do this. Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?!: MLK Magnet TJ A (undefeated) Dorman A (undefeated) Hunter Dorman B (undefeated) Charter A DCC RM A (undefeated) Whitman (undefeated) Rockford Auburn NKC State College (undefeated) 4th: State College 3rd: Whitman 2nd: Dorman A 1st: TJ A Consolation: Walter Johnson...

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What happened in the Small School playoffs?

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I'll be taking a year off after my graduation from UNC, and with the possible exception of the VCU Open, I probably won't have much involvement in quizbowl outside of the state of North Carolina. I'm planning to go to grad school for linguistics in the fall of '09; there's a good chance I'll be at l...

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I'm too awful for CO and too ineligible for the novice tournament, but I might be able to moderate.

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From MUT, for Sara:

Given: glass armonica
Answer: saxophone

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5. That USC-UNC packet was absolutely horrible. There were 3 science tossups, for starters, one of which was on Calcite (SCIENCE). There was a tossup on Gulliver's Travels that was absolutely transparent, a vaguely worded tossup on Jung (come on, you could at least give me Psychological Types befor...

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At SCT my freshman year, we were down by about 30 points with 15 seconds or so left on the clock. Some guy on the other team buzzes in halfway through the question, stalls to kill time... but stops with 2 seconds left. Meanwhile, in the time it took him to reel off "The Federated Republic of Mi...

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Also, I have to give the thumbs-up to Taft as a stat-entering device. It's pretty hard to beat free, but if you're looking for an easy way to provide live updates and upload stats from multiple sites, this is definitely what you want. There were a couple minor bugs I found when setting up and editin...

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Maryland A, consisting of Chris Ray and Brittany Clark, defeated VCU's Evan Adams and Andrew Alexander 460-30 in a one-game championship to win the Marvin Lee Aday Open. Chris was also the top scorer and took home the neg prize, an LP of Meat Loaf's Dead Ringer . In a scrimmage game held after the c...

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Live updates will be available at http://www.taftqb.com/t/mlao for those who are curious. Also, we dropped back down to 10 teams.

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Semi-final field update: William and Mary South Carolina A South Carolina B Duke A Duke B VCU Wake Forest A Wake Forest B NC State Eric Kwartler Maryland A Maryland B Maryland C UNC Gregory House If you have an extra team that wants to join between now and around Thursday, let me know and I'll put t...

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Walter Williams and, I think, Page used to be fairly active back in the early '00s; I don't know why they've dropped off recently.

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Yeah; although questions were highly appreciated, submitting a half-packet was completely optional and the final absolute deadline was about three days ago, in any case. My apologies for the confusion. Glad to hear Maryland'll be coming. If y'all's contact for this tournament is going to be someone ...

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I won't be playing for UNC at ICT (should we attend), but if this has a serious impact on your poll you may want to strongly re-examine your ranking criteria...

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KilroyWasHere

Brice Russ, UNC

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And thanks to VT for pulling off what I understand to be their first college tournament in a while under some pretty adverse circumstances. The day started off sort of slow and the moderator quality varied, but y'all did a great job overcoming various issues and I had about as much fun as I probably...

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From Penn Bowl-- Two that seem pretty bad, but make a reasonable amount of sense in context: Given: Portrait of Madame X Correct: "the nude photo of Vanessa Hudgens" Given: Time Cube Correct: The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even ...and one horrible neg that *only* makes sense if ...

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