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Here is an update for anyone interested Contributors: Gautam Kandlikar Gaurav Kandlikar Ethan Hewett Cody Pickens Dallin Kelson Official Tournament Name Crank Dat Sozaboy I Expressed Interest Mark Morris + Snead Casey Lowery Jessica Collins George Berry Robert Slade Moderators Ethan Hewett Dallin Ke...

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Before you all go nuts writing questions on "traffic" and "landfills" please take a minute to consider whether anyone can actually get them. I think these concepts, while many of them are interesting and worthy of being written about, are almost certainly going to work out bette...

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I genuinely like the ideas Bruce posed, but the only qualm I have with it is that it seems to be better suited to the college level, with little to no application in high school. While this was probably Bruce's target audience, I hope he can perhaps elaborate on this for me. "Your Choice"...

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I genuinely like the ideas Bruce posed, but the only qualm I have with it is that it seems to be better suited to the college level, with little to no application in high school. While this was probably Bruce's target audience, I hope he can perhaps elaborate on this for me. As for major-specific qu...

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I also forgot to add above that we have 1 player who is non-lit who could probably help in some capacity. Thank you. At this time, I know Chipola will be able to supply at least 3-5 readers, with Borglum and anyone else with him, we should have around 10 readers. Also, this set is open to be mirror...

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High schoolers better love Nernst Equation and Gibbs Free Energy as they seem to come up at pretty much every tournament -- I'm not sure whether these concepts are taught in high school science classes or not, but tournament writers certainly seem to view them as highly important. Every chemistry b...

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Thank you for offering to help/recruit readers Borglum. These questions would be extremely boring for you, since you would simply answer them all in the first line. Also, I do not care whether or not we play in Orlando. Every tournament you guys host is ran extremely well and while it does get borin...

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I don't think staffing is going to be that big of an issue. Right now I am worried about whether we will actually be able to get rooms to play it in. If it is in Mobile (which is where I have heard it is going to be at) I don't know how willing an inactive quizbowl community would be to keep the bui...

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I'm not sure how many people from CCCT will want to play, but I imagine a good many, which poses me to ask if there will be any sort of a field cap for this or if you would end up doing some type of draft for a doubles event or something if there was over X number of people. This is one of those th...

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I am thinking 5 bucks. This being the first iteration of our tournament, I don't want anyone to pay 10 + dollars for something and it not be of quality.

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Couldn't computational math be pyrmamidal? I am sure this is going to be refuted, but couldn't you simply have an answer space of n, and lead in with [insert level appropiate hard math here] and progress through them? While I am in no way a supporter of comp math, this seems to be a fairly pyramida...

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Couldn't computational math be pyrmamidal? I am sure this is going to be refuted, but couldn't you simply have an answer space of n, and lead in with [insert level appropiate hard math here] and progress through them? While I am in no way a supporter of comp math, this seems to be a fairly pyramidal...

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Any idea as to where CCCT will be held?

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Kwang the Ninja wrote:
TheLessFamousEthan wrote:written in 10 point single spaced Calibri font
Change it to Times/Times New Roman and you've got a deal.

Since I am editing, I will simply change your font to whatever I want. Since it is you, I will change it to Wingdings.

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It basically comes down to how you write. If you want an easy part that is converted by anyone with a pulse, Gretzky is pretty much the only hockey player for that. For an 80-90 percent conversion rate, pretty much any player named so far in this thread would work. Soccer is the same way. The only p...

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And I'm going to disagree with you, too! I don't see how at least one or two of Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, and Alexander Ovechkin is not appropriate as an easy part. If those guys aren't easy parts, what is? "Hockey?" "The Stanley Cup?" "Ice?" Definit...

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If it is at all possible, could I get an admin to change the date of this thread to February 26, or simply CCCT? Our tournament on the 8th will not produce enough interested parties to warrant using this whole set for possibly 5-6 people.

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Edited it in there. I forgot about that and RMP. RMP is neither lit nor fine arts? Eh I'm not complaining. Is this going to be mirrored elsewhere? I guess RMP would qualify as "philosophers, religious texts, and anything social science-y". Also, we are more than willing to have these ques...

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TheKingInYellow wrote:Where does Euro Lit fit in that scheme?

Edited it in there. I forgot about that and RMP.

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A few players from Chipola had decided to write a litfine arts singles for our tournament on January 8-9, but with a strange football-throwing accident to one of our writers, we may have to move it back to CCCT. This set will be available for mirrors if anyone is interested. Details The target is to...

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But wouldn't it better better and less tedious on a moderator to simply cut out the extra information? At what point does a writer decide "this is interesting information about Melville" and "this information will help a player get tossups on Melville"? These extra words make a h...

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After reading the DAFT* thread, it made me wonder how to avoid using filler words/clues in questions, particularly bonuses. When the lead-in says "This man wrote Moby-Dick" and then goes on to say things about Herman Melville's political views/notable quotes, isn't that just a waste of eve...

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Panasonic Academic Challenge (now some other jumble of letters) used to have up to 6 teams playing at once. I think they did it by moving on to the next tossup after any incorrect answer, and penalizing that team the amount of points the tossup was worth (?). Most buzzer systems don't have lockout ...

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Speaking from experience, an unmotivated player is more than most likely not going to get motivated over night, if ever. I had played quizbowl on horrible questions for 6 years before hearing my first pyramidal tossup, and all of those one liners that I learned in 4th grade at public school had made...

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The Rabelais seems pretty common to me, but that Mary bonus was very hard. We 10'd it off of total luck. (A teammate had been raving about his research paper on the Mary of Guadalupe)

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Personally. I felt that the bonuses were easier than ACF Fall and NAQT's Invitational sets. I am not sure if this was the intended difficulty, but I don't remember any bonus where I was thinking "Man, that was a hard bonus."

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[quote="starwarsguy6"] -The dunking on Lebron tossup (again, what is it with this coming up in QB) -The Holmes, Sr. tossup (there are two important Oliver Wendell Holmes', so the Sr. or Jr. should be needed, especially before the giveaway) -The Nash tossup (transparent once you mention the...

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Just a little tidbit, Dallin and I are going to be writing a relatively novice lit singles tournament for this.

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Dude, I was blown away. It combines sports (throwed rolls!) with large helpings of awesome food. Damn I may just take a road trip this weekend lol

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This seems to be the big question from everyone involved with the CCCT. Early speculation has Mobile as the host city, but that is simply a rumor.

I am hoping for Mobile, as Lambert's is on the way

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Mark wrote:http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

Fixed?

Indeed!

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http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

Stats from the Bevill Mirror

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I think this will all get settled at CCCT. Yes it shall. There really is no excuse to be made. We all know that Snead beat us at Faulkner without their best player, and that does point towards Snead's ability. In our defense, it was our worst round of the day and the things tossed up that round jus...

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An example of the person coming from nowhere is Mark from Seminole CC, whom I briefly referenced upthread. He went 70-12 at Delta Burke in what I assume is his first college tournament (though I'm not sure--I didn't get to read for Seminole). Who knows how much improvement such a player might make ...

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Are they going to post stats from Bevill's mirror?

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I would like to thank Chris Borglum for running this tournament and every reader, scorekeeper, and anyone else involved with making this tournament go off without a hitch. As to be expected, Valencia provided the tournaments with nothing but excellent readers. The questions were all very good and ex...

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There is now 1 hour and 24 minutes until the this starts. To ease my impatience a teammate and i are going to go play hydro thunder (circa 1996).

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Me at ACF Fall

Given: Nuclear Winter
Answer: Fights between Batman and Superman

I buzzed on "super" thinking it was going to say superpowers, and I basically ignored everything in the tossup except that it was apocalyptic.

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Regretfully I was unable to attend Faulkner but I must say I am proud of Snead for doing as well as they did. I hear the Chipola A (Idk if it was letters or colors) round came down to the final toss-up which our new science guy answered. Nationals should certainly be interesting though, Robert Slad...

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Ehh I suppose since I won't be playing tomorrow I'll make some predictions 1st- NEACC in a close game against Chipola 2nd-Chipola 3rd-Snead 4th-Jeff State Although I did put Snead as finishing 3rd I wouldn't be surprised if they upset either Chipola or Northeast (or even both!) If they get hot they...

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Yes that was just my ill-fated attempt at trying to make a joke while asking Borglum whether or not Case was going to be a Novice team.

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Is there going to be any protection offered to us little community college teams against Case Western? Perhaps in the form of them only being freshman and sophomores?

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Given: Woodstock
Answer: Peterloo Massacre

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Something about failing to be convicted, treason... me: Benedict Arnold answer: Aaron Burr I actually knew it too, I just get those two mixed up for some reason On that note: FTP, identify this first Republican candidate Teammate: Friedman Answer: Fremont It is like, the 45th time he has done that ...

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Me at EFT:
this polity... parishes

Buzz: Louisiana
Answer: Taiwan

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Any update on who is going to be playing at Faulkner in two weeks?

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The only egregious Japanese lit tossup was on _A Thousand Cranes_, which was probably too difficult. I was unable to buzz as apparently for all these years I have confused the plot of this book with the plot of the children's book "Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes," so I was waiting f...

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I calculated the PATH for this tournament, which can be found here. Let me know in the likely event that I made mistakes. My handling of players who didn't play in all 12 of their team's matches may have been nonstandard -- I divided their total points by 12 and let that be their PPG, so that the t...

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I also noticed that there was a round (I think 10) that was much harder than the rest. I am not sure if it was the same round, but it also had like 4/5 lit tossups being poetry. I believe the Mishima tossup was fairly easy, and I particularly did not like the Candide tossup, as Pacquette was in the ...

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I would also like to say this tournament was ran very well and on a wider note I personally really liked the questions. A couple of moderators left a bit to be desired, but none of them affected the outcome of a match and the "bad" ones really weren't even that bad, just not as good as the...

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