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Black Miao wrote:8 AM : enter Indiana
9 Am: still entering Indiana.

The only redeeming quality of driving across Indiana (something OSU did just about every weekend we weren't going to Michigan) is the plethora of Arby's in that state.

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Does anyone have a real copy of Andy Goss' novel (which I believe is mostly WWE related)? I would definitely read that.

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I actually don't think too much of his work, but he's well associated with China. A description involving his work would have served the same purpose. That being said, it wasn't an egregious mishap or anything. I don't really agree that merely hearing "Thomas Friedman wrote an article about th...

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Ok, so I want to make two broad points in this thread, one about specialization and one about studying at a high level. Most coaches, players and teams these days seem to understand that specialization is the most efficient and effective team-building model for quizbowl. It makes sense; the daunting...

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Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote: Joe Nutter, former player for Walnut Hills High School and Ohio State University
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Joe wishes he could have played for OSU, when he attended Michigan State.

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A long time ago Grosse Pointe North had the fearsome duo of (Jamie) Ding and (Peter) Dong.

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Martin Short is good.

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To the best of my knowledge, no practitioners have explored n -headed generalizations of this format. There's some low-hanging fruit for you, enterprising quizbowlologists! From what I hear the UChicago team (and possibly many others) has a long tradition of playing "Designate Bowl," wher...

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To the best of my knowledge, no practitioners have explored n -headed generalizations of this format. There's some low-hanging fruit for you, enterprising quizbowlologists! From what I hear the UChicago team (and possibly many others) has a long tradition of playing "Designate Bowl," wher...

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I'm ok with risking a ban for meta posting to declare that this thread is horrible and filled with really bizarre opinions. Let's all read some Canadian history books instead of continuing the march into the Forbidden Zone.

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I would argue that the reason we ask about the Battle of Milvian Bridge instead of recent scholarship on "just how withdrawn from public life Roman elites in the 4th century were" is because it is unfair and maybe even not possible to expect enough people to have the appropriate academic b...

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blizzard wrote:I'll be going to Cincinnati. Not sure right now if I'll try to start a team or not.

do it do it do it

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Dartmouth submitted a pretty interesting tossup on the history of the Turkey for WIT a few years back. Food can be asked about in a variety of places within the distribution as long as a writer is smart and not too whimsical or indulgent about it. Food, after all, is probably the single most importa...

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Sing, Ashvin, contined songs of Danila, for they cause me to roar with delight

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And mine.

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I don't know if this is still the place to post stuff like this, but I see no point in making a new thread. I would like to work on something this year, but I don't know yet how busy I will be come autumn, so I would like to work on something small so that I don't end up biting off more than I can c...

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Thank you for posting this, Jerry. Not only does it provide a more nuanced analysis of the topics being discussed in the Nats discussion thread, but I think it will remind readers (certainly me) that good tournaments require good questions, and good questions take both time and a questioning of just...

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I have more comprehensive thoughts on this tournament that I may or may not ever post, but as someone who actually has read The Fifth Column, I can say that it, like much of Hemingway's work, frankly, is bad and important only in that it is his only play (at least in my opinion. By the time I got ar...

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I will be pursuing a PhD in physics at Yale, and intend to continue playing quizbowl there. I also plan to remain active in high school outreach in New England, though from a home base that's a little farther south. ...and we're back to Yale winning everything in the Northeast again, barring more P...

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Gonzagapuma1 wrote:Stats are up.

As much as I would like those 3 powers, our team's individual stats for R3 (vs UW A) seem to have been switched.

Thanks again for putting this on, Dan. I really appreciate the chance to play.

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This was a lot of fun to play! Thanks to everyone who made it possible, and to Jasper Lee for playing with me for the 30th tournament.

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Jasper Lee and I would like to play this together.

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Please excuse any typos or errors, I'm typing on my phone. Two episodes come to mind when thinking of my lowest quizbowl playing moments (for low points in the general world if quizbowl, the list is longer and mostly exists in the world of Ohio high school quizbowl): 1. NAQT State, 2010 This was the...

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I've been out of the loop for a while, so forgive me if these sentiments have already been shared, but it's super cool to see so many first timers(AFAIK) like Liberty, McGill, Oxford, Kenyon, Waterloo and DCC registered for ACF Nats. Don't forget UCF. This is our first time as well. Sorry about tha...

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I've been out of the loop for a while, so forgive me if these sentiments have already been shared, but it's super cool to see so many first timers(AFAIK) like Liberty, McGill, Oxford, Kenyon, Waterloo and DCC registered for ACF Nats.

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Barring something sudden and unforeseen, I will be pursuing a MA at the University of Vermont this fall and fully plan on coming out of hibernation and back into quizbowl.

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EACN has been incredibly useful in recruitment and especially retention at OSU, and I see no need to change it. In the however many years it's been run, people who join the team and play EACN have been much, much more likely to stick around past September.

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I'm down for this.

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:Mike Cheyne won my packet, 5 points ahead of Matt Lafer, Trevor Davis and Tommy Casalaspi, because Tommy negged the question mentioning him.

This is a wonderful packet. Dogtooth!

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Someone needs to find these question sets.

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I'll repeat what most are saying: this is probably the best question set I've ever played. It's kind of the Jerry tournament we've all (at least since I entered college) been waiting for. Everything Jerry's written that I've either played or read has been some of the most interesting question materi...

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I didn't mind the Hitler testicle thing even though I negged it; it was interesting and notable. Some of the answerlines seemed a bit stringent. I know there was a 1940's Detroit riot, but 9 times out of 10 "Detroit riot" is all you need for the 1967 Detroit riot. Since I don't think quiz...

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Is there going to be a write up of the discussion or is there some log I could see?

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Also, assuming I finish this thesis in the next months or so, I am done as well. I'll probably play opens but my knowledge level has already atrophied so much that I'm pretty sure I'll lose to Jarret Greene at ICT. Already making excuses, I see. Don't let this rivalry go the way of Broncos-Raiders....

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Yeezy taught me (various buzzwords).

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I'll be out of school/quizbowl for at least next year, but there's a high probability that I'm in grad school somewhere by 2016.

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Just poppin' in to plead the Powers That Be not to allow 1/1 British History to become an established part of the distribution (although it looks like the discussion has gone past that).

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As for non-history thoughts, I really enjoyed the other subjects in which I can claim competence. The social science, mythology and especially the other art and religion did a great job asking about interesting things across a number of different subcategories. I especially enjoyed the film, even if...

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As someone who likes history, I guess I'd like the people who didn't like the history in this set to clarify why. I'm not arguing it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but in both playtesting it and reading it, I did not encounter a horde of transparent tossups or famous lead-ins (I do agree ...

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I'm gonna try my best to get to CO this year, so if anyone wants to team up, drop me a message, preferably if you're someone I haven't played with before. I know history and bits and pieces elsewhere and would like to at least beat Mike Cheyne.

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why have we humored this guy for like two months of posting please stop

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Matt Jackson has no time for the time honored quizbowl tradition of Chris Ray jokes.

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You can write a tossup on West Germany for your American history distribution as last year ACF Nats did and you can write a tossup on Taiwan for American history as I did for Marshall's CO History. In the case of Thutmose III or a tossup on, say, Sargon the Great, that's World history. This is not h...

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Has the field grown at all?

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Can we get some sort of confirmation that both our teams' packets were received?

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To be honest, this always kind of bothered me. School should be used to educate students, not help in them in an academic competition, that yes, can potentially educate them. Just imagine how outraged you'd be if football players got to have a "study hall" in the weight room for the 1st s...

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Hey everyone, Just thought I'd stop in and pitch a tournament OSU is hosting on January 11th, 2014, Winter War 3. We already have a pretty good looking field including DCC and some good Ohio schools, and we'd love to see some Kentucky teams in Columbus. Information on the tournament and how to regis...

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This was every bit the absurdly hard tournament that was advertised and a truly unique, (mostly) fun experience. Thanks for writing and hosting this, Jerry et al.

Will Nediger, you are absurd.

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My assumption is no, but out of curiosity, are these puppies going to be powermarked?

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