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A date poll for an online mirror has been posted

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A discussion forum has been made, we'd love to hear folks feedback!

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Here is the thread for discussing individual questions or errata for us to fix before future mirrors. To start us off, there were three errors that have been corrected since the mirror (and which are reflected in the posted packets) 1. The tossup on Melek Taus lacked a prompt for Iblis. I simply for...

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If you are reading this, that means probably you played or playtested for MUSES II: This Time Its Personal! We hope you enjoyed the set! Please use this thread for any general feedback or thoughts on the set. Before that, however, I would like to give a huge thank you to the writing team, namely Eth...

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Attached are the packets from MUSES II: This Time Its Personal

They are identical to how they were played on CO Sunday with a few minor fixes

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My main gripes with the tournament were with some pretty skewed subdistributions: Religion: felt extremely heavy on Christian theology, both to the detriment of other Christianity questions (scriptures, practices, etc.) and pretty much every other religion except maybe Islam. To take an extreme exa...

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Congratulations to our co-champions, Here I Am, Rock You Like a Hurrian (Will Alston, Alston Boyd, John Lawrence, and Stephen Liu) and Oh You Like Mythology? Then Name Every Dinosaur (Matt Bollinger, Alex Damisch, Auroni Gupta, and Daniel Hothem)!!!

Full stats can be found here

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Not to be obnoxious, but any chance we could get the MUSES team names (which are amazing ), prelims, and playoffs in 3 separate tabs of a Google Sheet? It'd be much easier to read than downloading PDFs when walking around Tech looking at your phone. =) here they are Glad you like them! Hope everyon...

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I would like to make a brief petition to join a team as a fifth member (substitute or otherwise) or as a replacement for someone who is not here. Should this not pan out, I would be interested in reading/score keeping for this. If no one in the field objects we have no problem with a few 5 person t...

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Here's the basic info for today's event

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All teams have been given a name in the team formation doc, if anyone doesn't like their name or would prefer a generic one, let me know.

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From the responses received so far, there does not appear to be a clear, strong preference for changing the format, as such we will be sticking with the standard scoring. More details will be sent out tomorrow morning, but here are a few key things to know for tomorrow's event: 1. The start time wil...

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If there is interest in another mirror, whether in person or online, we will arrange or allow someone else to arrange it.

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In an email just sent to team contacts, I just announced that we are considering experimenting with the scoring format. We will only do this if there is a clear support for this among the teams currently in the field. The proposal is as such: Instead of a standard 15/10/-5 scoring scheme, we are con...

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Unfortunately, due to some unavoidable conflicts with my upcoming Ph.D. program, I am no longer able to attend. Iain Carpenter will be taking over day of logistics and tournament director responsibilities. For all communication regarding this event before Sunday, please continue to contact me. Relat...

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We are capping the field at 10 teams, we will expand to 12 if there is sufficient interest and staff.

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Just a reminder to teams planning to play this, to officially sign up you need to send me an email to the address in the original post.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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1992 in spaceflight wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:21 pm MUSES II won, so be on the lookout for an announcement post from them sometime soon.

Here in fact.

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Howdy folks! We are pleased to announce a mirror of MUSES II at this year's Chicago Open . Barring unforeseen circumstances, I will be the tournament director for this event. The cost to play will be $10 per player. Staffers will be paid $20 each. Here is a Team Formation Spreadsheet . Please note, ...

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Hello everyone! We have been informed that the odds of an in-person side event weekend being hosted at UIUC this summer are very slim. Because such a side event tournament was the primary reason for having this set be of the scale that it was originally announced, we have decided to cut down its sco...

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I agree with Alex, I don't think it would be particularly helpful to highlight low-quality sets when compared to highlighting high-quality ones. At some point in the past, I thought that certain high-quality sets (especially regionals, fall, and nats) were bolded to indicate that they were considere...

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We are excited to announce that Ben Miller of U Chicago has joined the set and will be contributing to Clio/history! We are still working on an expected finish date, we will likely wait until ACF Nats and CO's dates are announced to finalize the completion date in order to give the best chance of th...

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I will be staying at UT Austin for the next ~4-6 years to pursue a Ph.D. in human development and family sciences.

Time permitting I plan to remain involved with QB!

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Is this still happening?

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Here is the link to the packets, as played on 10/24 (with minor revisions)

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There has been a change to the bonus structure of this set, which is now reflected in the OP

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there's an error on Steppenwolf from Round 1 where the tossup says "Hermione" instead of Hermine. 10. This character grabs ahold of a man’s hair which then turns into a comet and carries this character through a “rarefied and glacial atmosphere." This character sees a war between car...

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I negged the Day of the Dead tossup with Christmas. The lead-in described processions of candle-wielding individuals who are allowed entry into various peoples' homes. This is very similar to festivities performed during Las Posadas, a multi-day Christmas-adjacent festival that is celebrated throug...

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Sean wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:20 am Out of curiosity, may I ask the voters what caused Stanford to go up 9 spots since the last postseason poll?

Presumably Tim Morrison

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We have decided to release the questions to everyone who has played the set so far. A new thread has been made with the link. Please remember that there are additional mirrors to be played so keep the set content confidential.

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Here is the link to the packets, as played on 9/26

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Thanks Bradley. I would note that mentioning scorched earth tactics on homesteads and an English name led to a first-line buzzer race on the Boer War in my room. For the Li Bai question, I get that it's cluing a specific Ezra Pound poem but I think the sorrowful monkey line could just as well be a ...

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Could I see the Li Bai and Boer War questions please? edit: mistake moved to errata Locations created during this conflict were excoriated by Henry Campbell-Bannerman in the question “when is a war not a war?” following a scorched earth campaign against homesteads. During this conflict, Sarah Wilso...

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I haven't finished my ballot yet, but I have created this tier list (order within ranks alphabetical): S: Columbia A S-: Chicago A, Illinois A, Maryland A, Stanford A A+: Harvard A, Virginia A A: Berkeley A, Florida A, Ohio State A, Texas A A-: Cambridge A B+: Chicago B, Johns Hopkins A, Yale A B: N...

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Probably not, but worth a shot—will the packets be posted on this forum? For question security reasons, the set's editors have elected not to post the packets here. However, please feel free to make use of the specific question discussion thread if there are any particular questions you would like ...

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cwasims wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:24 pm "Z-statistic" should be accepted for the "z-score" question - that term also appears on several reputable websites that discuss the concept (and anecdotally I have heard it referred to that way).

Thank you for pointing this out, more alternative answers have been added.

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Is it possible you could paste that tossup - I didn't remember too much about it. Thanks! In one novel by this author, two characters discuss a skeleton that was found holding a faded portrait, which may have been her lover or husband. That novel by this author centers on the fictional author of A ...

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What were the early clues on Kawabata, Shelley, and the late clues for thief? Thanks. For the Kawabata tossup: The first two sentences were about Beauty and Sadness The next two sentences were about Thousand Cranes The finale clues were from Snow Country I will let William answer the questions abou...

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I'd love to see the tossups on CERN and on shells. TU on CERN: ELENA is a ring-shaped device at this facility designed to produce the “extra low energy” type of a certain particle. That particle is the heavier of two constituent molecules whose freefall acceleration researchers at this facility are...

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In accordance with what Will noted above, the tossup on rent control, specifically the Sowell clue, was a bit misleading I thought -- immediately upon hearing the tossup, actually, I think it was pretty transparent that it would have either been either some zoning issue tossup or rent control (that...

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Please use this thread to discuss specific tossups or bonuses from Longhorn Invitational Tournament. If you would like to see a particular question, please post here (along with the reason you would like to see it).

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Please post any typos, packetization errors, formatting errors, feng shui issues, etc in this thread

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Speaking as one of the people whose opinion was sought with regards to whether Chase should be given the opportunity to play more packets as a comparison, my opinion was no. The reason for this is that the "counterevidence" provided did not actually address the evidence presented (more on ...

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I apologize if anyone found my previous post misleading or incomplete in any way, and for the delay in this follow-up response. The tournament and its aftermath have been extremely time-consuming, and I recognize that everyone would like more information and closure as soon as possible. But Duke do...

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One of our students is taking the semester off because of COVID, but says he plans to return for the spring semester. I know that in the reverse case (taking classes in the fall but not the spring), players are generally eligible to play in the spring. Is there any way we can petition for an exempt...

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A quick note about what follows. These are not my ideas and I am not claiming credit for them. I am paraphrasing from a woman whose opinion on power dynamics and interpersonal relationships in professional settings I greatly admire (and who does not want to be publicly named here). I am also not cla...

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Carlos Be wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 7:18 pmThis tournament wants to collect video recordings of everyone while they play the set

I don't see where in the post it says that recordings are being made. However, if recordings are being made, I think it is incumbent on the hosts to make that explicitly clear for a variety of privacy reasons.

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Is this planned as tossups only or tossups + bonuses?

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Is there a particular reason ballots should not be posted here, or am I misreading the OP?

EDIT: I ask because I personally find ballots with explanations attached to them to be helpful and interesting discussion points

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Due to the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are electing to postpone this set until summer of 2021. If things make a sudden turnaround we may have this set available for any Summer side events this summer.

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