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Oh yeah, I'm in precalc on a team where everyone else is pretty much doing math at Penn State, and I powered the hell out of that question

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19. Jesuit theologian Benterim claimed that a thirteenth-century law decreed that pictures should be covered during this time period, and its beginning is defined by the Sunday closest to the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle. Methodism holds that “Kingdomtide” precedes this event, and this event...

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I honestly think mixing and matching state teams won't help all that much, except in cases almost extreme imbalance, like maybe a very good science player from TJ joining Gov. The natural advantage I think will go to teams that have a pretty good chance of remaining intact, like Hunter or State Coll...

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I'm in, I believe with Ike Jose

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Haha sorry, I was just replacing Dorman with MW and Henry/Charter with you/GDS... more directed at this year than next

Hopefully that'll clear things up

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Forgive my ignorance, but are there definite plans for the lit doubles yet?

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My prediction for next year's HSNCT:

Maggie Walker thrashes Matt Jackson and GDS in three games across the weekend, but, during the fourth game, on an improbable last minute buzz, Matt carries GDS to victory, and they win the tournament

TheKingInYellow · Re: TJIAT (10/17/09) State College is interested

State College is interested

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Easily the most exciting round was the one with Asturias and Pound

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I mean, I was like six inches away from where Todd and Freddy were conferring, so I'm pretty sure that's not the case, but whatever.

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Darn.

Even so, we still shouldn't have won that game: Dorman most definitely should have been prompted on Gauss for Gaussian integers, it's obvious they knew what they were talking about

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3. I don't see how restricting trash to certain parts of the packet would improve anything. (Because a trash tossup, even tossup #3 or whatever, could still be the margin of victory in a 10-point game.) It's certainly possible to argue that trash questions should be abolished entirely, but we do no...

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Anything in the mid-Atlantic and I'll certainly drag SC along

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I remember a bonus on Egyptian goddesses, several Celtic myth answers, a couple Chinese things (Eight Immortals for sure), a Norse bonus including Tyr, a TU on Marduk, and an Aztec bonus including Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc and someone else. But still, unless I've forgotten a lot of answers, that isn'...

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As just an addendum to what Jack said, I found the mythology overwhelmingly Greek. Aside from toss-ups on Thor and Canopic Jars, I don't think there was any Norse or Egyptian (I'm probably forgetting something, but still...)

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Maybe its just State College, but we spent some time on Abdulhamid in history, and given any basic knowledge of the Ottoman Empire he's not that hard to pull

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Interesting that we don't make the top bracket, but go on to win the tournament

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Sorry if I've offended you or something, it was meant as a friendly challenge for the upcoming national tourneys

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Prove us wrong ;D

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The Fine Arts and Computer Science point is that no high school quiz bowl player is currently pursuing that as more than a hobby, and the people who are considering those things as a career (which is a minority) are most likely not actually doing a large amount of paid work in the field yet. As far...

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Welcome to NAQT!

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I like the bounceback system because it makes it less likely for one player to swing the outcome by introducing a wider swath of knowledge that is being tested in each match. No it doesn't. The questions being asked are literally the same regardless of whether bouncebacks are used, and the hypothet...

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Hey Cameron- Ben Geselowitz and I are maybe possibly considering going... perhaps a very knowledge-imbalanced MW/SC alliance would interest you?

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State College is interested, whether Ms. Gittings is, I don't know

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I think I've found some incorrect information in one of the questions, is there someone I should talk to about that?

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For my own nationals predictions, could someone from State College tell me if today's B team is roughly equivalent to the likely NSC lineup? No. Our B team at PACE will be Christoph and Tom, the two high scorers, Monica, who played on the A team, and another kid who doesn't come to many tournaments...

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I wouldn't be so quick to rank Stuy behind Kellenberg and HHHW. Aidan has a very interesting knowledge base, to be sure, and I think they have a lot more potential to upset teams with his deep knowledge in certain areas. I haven't actually played HHHW this year, but Stuyvesant seemed more of a threa...

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I know what you meant though, and I still agree very whole heartedly

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Ike wrote:IF NAQT members and PACE members did a role reversal, I have no problem believing the members behind the new NAQT organization would put on a tournament so good. Then I would just criticize the heck out of NAQT.
Ike

Yes

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Could I say that it was interesting that the power mark went beyond for ten points on the Soseki tossup?

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Just a quick question on the rules here: on two occasions in the finals, Daichi, Ben, and I all buzzed in at the same time. Daichi negged, and Ben and I both immediately held down our buzzers to get the question when Ike cleared. Ben's buzzer rang in first on both occasions, presumably because his h...

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Thanks to Ike for a generally solid set... the playoffs in particular were a lot of fun to play, and super powers were generally a good thing. So was (oops)

EDIT
Got rid of an answer, sorry, I'm horribly forgetful

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State College can bring a buzzer

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Sadly, singles won't work for State College

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Do you need an official email from SC? Or are we good as is?

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Ben Geselowitz and I are definite barring catastrophe

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State College can bring a team to Saturday's event, as well as a buzzer and probably a scorekeeper

EDIT: And how long is the Saturday Singles tournament expected to run?

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I have to agree with Guy on this one, this toss-up strikes me as solidly pyramidal, at least from my knowledge of the subject.

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Having only read three rounds, I would say that some of the bonuses lack substantive clues. Like the Kafka bonus, for example "This Kafka work involves a missing person" and "This was Kafka's last work and has a protagonist K". A little bit more detail would be nice, particularly...

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I totally agree about internal canon expansion, but there seems to be only so much you can do with plot details from three books. Having players be able to recognize increasingly minor characters or plot details doesn't seem as valuable to me as introducing new works

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It's also limiting in knowledge expansion. If all that's going to be asked are the titles and summaries of an author's most/moderately famous works, a high schooler would have no reason to research more deeply in to Saul Bellow, and learn the plot summaries/titles of works like The Dean's December ...

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It's also limiting in knowledge expansion. If all that's going to be asked are the titles and summaries of an author's most/moderately famous works, a high schooler would have no reason to research more deeply in to Saul Bellow, and learn the plot summaries/titles of works like The Dean's December o...

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The Laughing Man wrote: I agree. But I would add that it is often better to drop two titles of works other (and more obscure) than those described.

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If some semblance of State College team makes it out, Ben Geselowitz and I will certainly be signing up for this. We're certainly thinking about attending, but we haven't really made definite plans yet

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Damn. My bad

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I'm assuming this is allowed to happen now?

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Does the fourth player on Maggie Walker have any negs? Is this school for real?

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closesesame wrote:I am more or less sure I am going to MIT next year, and I fully intend to keep playing quizbowl.

Laura Gabrovsek has been known to bite, watch out

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Are last years questions posted anywhere?

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Here's my top few, if anyone's interested

1 Charter
2 State College A
3 GDS
4 Walter Johnson
5 Maggie Walker
6 Hunter
7 Dorman
8 TJ
9 Gonzaga

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