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Nice hockey Cote d'Azur wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:49 am Kai Smith
Johns Hopkins A
Tejas Santanam
Jakob Boeye

Alt: Oxford A

Replacing this with:

Kai Smith
Aayush Rajasekaran
Chris Ray
Johns Hopkins A

Alternate: Tejas Santanam

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Voting has concluded. The 11 voters were Geoffrey Chen, Nick Collins, Justin Hawkins, Ryan Humphrey, Moses Kitakule, Jack Mehr, Jakob Myers, Rudra Ranganathan, Graham Reid, Vishwa Shanmugam, and Kevin Wang. Thanks to each of them for taking the time to contribute. 1. University of Chicago (Chicago, ...

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It's time for the midseason installment of the most sacred rite in quizbowl, the collegiate poll. Please vote. Feel free to discuss, but do not post ballots directly in the thread. Do not vote for high school teams. You can vote for B teams. Ballots must contain 25 teams. E-mail them to me at nch@um...

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Much as I would love it, I actually think that .5/.5 math would be excessive in any set beyond HS difficulty, and .5/.5 "pure math" would be just insane given how relatively few people study the advanced topics (compared to, e.g. CS). Pursuant to a private conversation I've been having, I...

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I enjoyed reading this set. Some typographical errors that it might be useful to correct (some substantive, some not): In Harvard/UCSD/Swarthmore A, Joe Tinker's name is misspelled "Tinkers" and the German name of the Ring cycle is given as Der Ring des Nibelungens when it should be Der Ri...

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I will say that I didn't play this tournament and haven't looked at the set, but the Turkey tossup stands out to me as unfriendly because none of the clues in power do anything at all to narrow the answer space geographically. A couple of the early clues in that tossup would also be difficult for me...

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Chris Ray
Kai Smith
Jacob Reed
Johns Hopkins A

Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran

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DROP Jakob Boeye
ADD Aayush Rajasekaran

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Kai Smith
Lauren Onel
Jakob Boeye
Oxford A

Alternate: Tejas Santanam

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DROP John Stathis
ADD Tejas Santanam

DROP William Golden
ADD Jakob Boeye

DROP Sam Bailey
ADD Lauren Onel

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Obviously, the full announcement that was supposed to be posted at the beginning of September, nearly two months ago, has not been posted, and no information has been sent to teams that signed up for this site. More generally, Chuck Pearson has been totally incommunicado (although he has logged onto...

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Will ACF disclose the other five sites that submitted bids? If ACF feels the need to keep this information secret from the public, what is the reasoning?

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I strongly agree with this; we had 8 fairly mismatched games and then weren't able to play UMD B, an experience we were looking forward to. In UMD's case, this meant that 5 of their 12 games were against high schools! (I am aware that at least one of the high school teams here was very good.) Again...

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Yeah nobody disputes that quizbowl prodigies shouldn't be playing novice tournaments, I just wanted to say "hey, by saying that it's the duty of a novice tournament TD to check team rosters for ineligible players, you are asking TDs to do a lot of work and because data is in so many different ...

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Jacob Reed
Chris Ray
Kai Smith
Yale A

Alternate: John Stathis

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This is an important point made well. As I mentioned in a Facebook comment today, it's useful to think of eligibility rules not just as a punitive measure, but as a tool to help clubs understand which players are of an appropriate level of experience to be playing the set. The lack of clarity in thi...

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DROP Chris Manners
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FFSNL Week Two Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Wang 0-2 82 Team Raje 2-0 109 Team Wang Team Cheyne -- 25 points Robot Matt Bollinger -- 13 points 38 points Team Raje Team Gehring -- 30 points Maryland B -- 23 points 53 points Most Valuable Player -- Team Gehring After the ignominy of...

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Chris Ray
Kai Smith
Sam Bailey
Johns Hopkins A

Alternate: John Stathis

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This may sound really strange, but is there any sort of etiquette about which players a school sends to CNS? Purdue wants to send two teams, but the discussion we've been having has been bothering me. Basically, of the people who want to go, I'll split them into three categories, ranked based on wh...

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Consider that the Venn diagram of people who might participate in an online quizbowl tournament and people who might staff a local tournament has significant overlap. If an online playtesting tournament happens on the same day as a real tournament, it will almost certainly cut into the pool of staff...

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Current field (TEAMS/BUZZERS/STAFFERS): Sally Hemings (2/0/0) This pseudonym is grossly inappropriate; I can elaborate on the reasons if required, but its inappropriateness should be self-explanatory. I believe that this has been indicated in the past to the high school using this pseudonym. It is ...

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I would enjoy this.

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I'd like some clarification with regard to the eligibility rules. Specifically: High schoolers may play, and can play on chimera teams with permission, but permission will only be granted if they are unable to play with their school team. Can the editors provide an example of an instance in which a ...

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High school mirrors Beginning with ACF Fall 2018, ACF will allow high school teams to attend select mirrors of ACF Fall. Hosts interested in having high school teams attend their mirror should contact fall2018acf@gmail.com to apply for an exemption. If this exemption is granted, hosts will work wit...

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I'll repost in this space what I said privately, since I think it's relevant here. I understand and respect the desire of ACF to finalize a date for Nationals as soon as possible in order to facilitate the placement of bids and the like. That said, it's still August and most universities aren't even...

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Voting has concluded. The 13 voters were Will Alston, Alston Boyd, Harris Bunker, Ryan Humphrey, Wonyoung Jang, Jack Lewis, Jack Mehr, Jakob Myers, Tejas Raje, Jacob Reed, Graham Reid, Ryan Rosenberg, Richard Yu. Thanks to each of them for taking the time to contribute. 1. Chicago Maroons (10), 322,...

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This is a reminder that you have five days to vote. Please send in your ballots (and also keep talking about roster changes as you see fit).

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I think we have to consider history and literature separately here. There's a good reason to regard British literature as separate from European literature; because it's in our language, it's much more accessible to us than the literature of the European mainland, and is correspondingly much better ...

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I'm extremely curious as to what specific examples are being cited in the latter half of Naveed's post, because I can't actually think of any. I highly doubt the strength of Wayzata is even in the top ten reasons as to why Minnesota-area teams remaining fairly similar in strength from year to year....

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Have you tried asking the tournament head editor for exemption privately before? I have found that they are usually okay with it as long as it makes the field better. As Jon mentioned, there's no situation that I can think of where a private exemption to announced eligibility rules would be justifi...

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This is the announcement for the preseason poll for collegiate teams. Please do not post ballots in the thread. Do not vote for high school teams. You can vote for B teams. Ballots must contain 25 teams. E-mail them to me at nch@umd.edu by August 17. Last year's postseason top 25: 1. Yale Bulldogs: ...

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I made this inquiry in last year's set announcement, but presumably everyone at Harvard collectively missed it since no reply was made. This inquiry concerns information pertinent to potential mirror hosts as well as to teams that may be interested in playing the set, so I hope that it receives a re...

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I'm not sure where the right place is to put this ("Rules and global announcements" would seem to be the most relevant board, but it's locked), but for roughly the last three years, discussion forums for old sets haven't been made public, even after the set is posted. Presumably this isn't...

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kiwikoalabear wrote: > November 17th for our inaugural novice tournament, NAQT (Novice Academic Quiz Tournament)

Please don't call your tournament this.

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There's a lot of labor that goes into making quizbowl possible, and in particular a lot of organizational work that has to take place. Because organizational skill doesn't have any particular correlation with quizbowl skill, great organizers tend to fly under the radar. I'd like to use this thread a...

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FortOsageScholarBowl wrote:Any word on how this went???

A team of me, Isaac Hirsch, Dan Puma, Rahul Rao-Pothuraju, and Alex Sankaran went undefeated, including a victory in the last round after negging seven of the first ten tossups and being down by 230 points at the half. It was fun.

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Voting has concluded. The 12 voters were Charles Hang, Andrew Hart, Justin Hawkins, Leo Law, John Marvin, Jakob Myers, Jacob Reed, Graham Reid, Alex Shaw, Kai Smith, Adam Sperber, and Chandler West. Thanks to each of them for taking the time to contribute. 1. Yale Bulldogs (11): 299, highest #1, low...

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Packet 5: Though Erwin “Machine-Gun” Walker’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison by a member of this family, he approved the death sentences of female inmates Elizabeth Duncan and Caryl Chessman. Not only was Caryl Chessman a man, but in fact he changed his name from Carol because he was ...

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Once again (this time for the last time this year), it's time for a poll. This is the announcement of the postseason poll for collegiate teams. Please do not post ballots in the thread. Do not vote for high school teams. You can vote for B teams. Ballots must contain 25 teams. E-mail them to me at n...

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Some months ago, I made a map of schools playing It's Academic this year; schools that played a tournament on NAQT questions during the 2016–17 school year are starred. The revelation that stood out most was that almost no Prince George's County schools play It's Ac (which is very interesting), but ...

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The writeup has been posted: http://hsquizbowl.org/blog/2018-collegi ... s-preview/

Please PM me with any corrections or updates that I should make.

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Hey guys, people are interested in having a writeup of the poll results similar to this one . I'd like to do this, but first I'd like to have your input about each team. Since ICT is coming up, time is limited, so I'll be hosting a roundtable discussion tonight at 6:30 EDT where we go through each t...

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Thanks for posting this, Jonah. There's a wealth of interesting information here, including a delightful old-timey ACF logo. It'd be nice if ACF were to put together something like this, albeit probably not in foldable brochure form. Some things I found interesting here: • ACF Nationals is consisten...

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More fundamentally, I think one of the best ways to address all these concerns is to get more students playing quizbowl and active in the quizbowl community at the high school level. We need quizbowlers who are good at PR, who can run tournaments well, who are willing to come out and read at local ...

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The term "Division II" has been in use in college quizbowl for a long time by NAQT, and it has had a specific meaning: Division II players are players who have never in a previous season qualified for or played at ICT. Because SCT and ICT are the only major tournaments with a divisional sp...

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Based on some discussion yesterday, this was a sample schedule that was presented. The order of tournaments is not exact. Total 13 tournaments (2 nationals, 1 open, 5 regionals-level, 5 easier than regionals) Fall: Novice tournament early in the year, ACF Fall, another easier than regionals tourname...

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Voting has concluded. The 14 voters were Will Alston, Ryan Bilger, Weijia Cheng, Jason Golfinos, Alexander Harmata, Ryan Humphrey, Daoud Jackson, Bradley Kirksey, Jakob Myers, Graham Reid, Jonathen Settle, Conor Thompson, Chandler West, and Richard Yu. Thanks to each of them for taking the time to c...

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This is a reminder that votes are due in three days, so get them in quick so that they can be counted. I've received 13 votes so far and the results can only get more accurate with a larger sample. If for some reason you sent in a vote but haven't received a reply from me, let me know.

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There hasn't been a poll in a while, so I'm doing one. This is the announcement of the midseason poll for collegiate teams. Please do not post ballots in the thread. Do not vote for high school teams. You can vote for B teams. Ballots must contain 25 teams. E-mail them to me at nch@umd.edu by March ...

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