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Reminder that this is happening tonight at 8:00 Eastern!

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Before posting the Scattergories 4 packets on the archive, I'll do some casual readings of the packets on Discord. I'll start on Monday at 8:00 Eastern, probably doing the first two packets then.

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I'd be happy to run some Discord shootouts (a couple packets a night, perhaps) at no cost.

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I don't plan to run another full-blown mirror of this - if anyone does want to run something using this set, let me know in the next couple of days so I can hold off on uploading it to the archives.

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Final stats are at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6546/ (thanks to Joe Su for running stats!). Team "Mott scattergories" (John Lawrence, Mike Bentley, Rob Carson, and Halle Friedman) won in overtime in a tight final against team "Mie scattergories" (Shan Kothari, Alston Bo...

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One of our staffers had to drop last-minute; if anyone else is willing to help staff, please let me know!

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A logistics email has been sent out to a representative from each of the teams. The field is now full at 20 teams, but there still are a small number of open slots for players.

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20 will be the final field cap - with 20 teams, we can do a round robin with two brackets of 10, followed by a one-game crossover final. The tournament's in a little under two weeks, so it would be helpful if free agents could assemble themelves into teams soon so I can make sure we do indeed get to...

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:24 pm The field has now been expanded to 18 teams - thanks to those who have volunteered to staff!

There are now 18 teams signed up, but I've expanded the field to 20.

women, fire and dangerous things

The field has now been expanded to 18 teams - thanks to those who have volunteered to staff!

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A few updates: 1. This tournament will have a code of conduct to which all players and moderators will be required to agree in order to participate; it will be sent out with the logistics email. Those who violate the code of conduct will be given a warning and/or removed from the tournament, as appr...

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There are now 8 teams officially signed up, but the field cap has been expanded to 14.

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This is the official announcement for the main mirror of Scattergories 4 (announcement here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23552&p=364280&hilit=scattergories#p364280 ), which will be held on Discord on Saturday, August 22 starting at 11 AM EDT. Camera will be required...

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The most popular date is Saturday, August 22, so I'll be running the mirror then. Stay tuned for an announcement!

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Yes, the plan is for this to be the main site. (Though I may do more online or in-person mirrors later, if there are enough people who are interested but can't play this one.)

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I'm planning to run an online mirror of Scattergories 4, most likely in August. If you're interested in playing, please fill out the poll indicating which dates you'd be available. I'm not including August 8, since CAMP is running then - if there are other events that I've missed that are already sc...

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We haven't set a date yet, but we're planning to run Scattergories 4 as an online event this summer.

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I was planning on running Scattergories at the various side event weekends.

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I could definitely believe that heritage speakers is just too hard to work at SCT, but I tried to choose the clues very carefully. The Valdes paper is the seminal work on the topic that provides the standard definition (and indeed the clue doesn't tell you why it's important, but that's due to the c...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

I quite like Colin Stetson's "Fear of the Unknown and the Blazing Sun": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crh8K_kuLQY

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me Cour...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky...

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Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. Weyes Blood - Movies - I also love the movies M83 - Midnight City vs. Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk Azealia Banks - 212 vs. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night Adele - Rolling in the...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. Ariana Grande - thank u, next Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Danny Brown (ft. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe Lorde - Royals vs. Gorillaz - On...

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I'm pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Scattegories, intended to be played as a side event in summer 2020. This version will be written by me and JinAh Kim, and will be more of the same Scattergories that you know and hopefully love: a very hard tournament about stuff that I like. As before...

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#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) #5 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company vs. #12 M.I.A. - Bad Gir...

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That being said, it now seemd to me that ACF doesn't really have a goal for what it wants to be. For a while, it seemed to me that ACF's purpose was to push the boundaries of pyramidal quizbowl by writing more and more innovative questions with more and more content, fostering an environment for th...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Bon Iver - Holocene vs. Perfume Genius - Queen Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) vs. Björk - Stonemilker Beach House - Space Song vs. Rosalía - Malam...

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us - this is probably my favorite song of ...

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For the Bruch, it mentioned a "violin concerto no. 1" quite early and, importantly, after Mozart, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and some Bach had already come up. Since most tossup-able composers only wrote one violin concerto if they wrote any at all, and most of the major composers who'd com...

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Lauren can't make it anymore, so Dylan, Hayden and I are looking for a fourth in case anyone's looking for a team.

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The #25 ranked team is the friends we made along the way.

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Stats are finally up: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5 ... all_games/. Sorry again for the delay!

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Sorry for the delay, that totally slipped my mind! They'll be posted quite soon.

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This set is now clear, and the packets will be up on the database soon.

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A contemporary music ensemble of this name was founded by Ingrid Culliford and Odaline de la Martinez. This Italian word is repeated at the beginning of the duet that Margarita and Faust sing when they meet in prison in Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele [may-fee-STOH-fay-lay]. The French cognate of this I...

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I was a bit confused by this question. It seemed to be describing La Jetee , where, if I recall correctly, the woman was standing on a platform at Orly Airport. Yeah, that answer was also accepted for that reason (it's a jetty that serves as an airport observation platform), but this answer probabl...

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Mike Bentley wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:41 am I sure hope you write another one in the future, although as someone who has also written three iterations of a side tournament in a row I can see why you'd want a break.

I was just talking to JinAh about this and we agreed to write Scattergories 4 together, so you're in luck!

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A private discussion forum is now set up for Scattergories 3, which you can join by going to "User control panel" and then "Usergroups."

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Here's your thread for discussion of Scattergories 3! Many thanks are due to Jaimie Carlson for writing some excellent questions for the set, and thanks to Jaimie for running the Discord mirror on short notice and to Alex Damisch for running the CO mirror. I've claimed that this will most likely be ...

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This is a preliminary announcement for a Discord mirror of Scattergories 3, on the weekend of July 20. Apologies for not offering a broader range of possible dates; that weekend and the next weekend are basically the only times I could run it, and there are more people I know of who'd want to play t...

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I'd most likely come to this.

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If the field hovers around the size it's currently at, I probably wouldn't be inclined to make the drive down, personally.

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A couple updates:

1) Jaimie Carlson is now writing questions for this set!

2) I'd like to run a Discord mirror for those who can't play it at CO, ideally sometime in July. If you'd be interested in playing such a thing and have date preferences, post here or get in touch.

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Seems like there's a big group for a July mirror, but I'm assuming if I asked people to settle on one weekend those votes would be split. I'm currently leaning towards August 17th-18th to have a buffer after CO. This has the benefit of giving writers more time to polish their sets and not accidenta...

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At my very first tournament, my team impressively zeroed a 40-30-20-10-1 bonus which asked you to identify Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" from quotes, where the 1-point quote was "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."

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A July date, the earlier the better, would definitely be better for me.

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