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How many rounds would such a thing be likely to go? Say if it were a doubles tournament, like last year.

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Since there seems to be significant demand for this, I'd be willing to take over if nobody else steps up.

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Why not do what NAQT does and have a separate Undergraduate championship at the same tournament as the general championship?

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I greatly enjoy casual backyard badminton, though I have had very little chance to play it at college.

Professional badminton is hardcore, though. Those cocks travel at 200 mph.

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Why would such a complicated scoring mechanism be necessary? Since you hint that you don't play fantasy sports online, usually head-to-head fantasy leagues use a very simple scoring mechanism whereby for every category that you have the better stats for in that week you get a single point. For insta...

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I'm not gonna complain about a tournament where Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej came up twice.

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I'm a big fan of the status quo, as I've expressed on numerous occasions.

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For example, it might make more sense for me to have Susan Ferrari on my team than Matt Weiner, depending on who else I'm playing with. I think the scenario here is that you are a NON-PLAYER, and are attempting to assemble a quizbowl team that you will manage, rather than play on. You get to pick o...

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If NAQT doesn't let you take over, you absolutely need to run this as a Soviet-themed tournament. Analog clocks (in soviet chess clock chic), moderators deployed in troikas, portraits of Lenin in each room, black bread and water for lunch, etc.

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Kyle wrote:Well, Eric, I in no way implied that I don't want to be your friend too!

Eric Kwartler is friend to all.

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My ancestors bred horses for the Austrian cavalry, and I wouldn't have gotten any points on any question about Lipizzaner horses. That's a bit out there, as far as answers go. If you want to ask about Austrian horses, ask about some battles, or about some cavalry commanders, or people who might, you...

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I will play this.

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which means he'll retire to spear fishing at his home in Minnesota, so perhaps he can get Bruce some seafood if he's too lazy to go to Red Lobster. Do they even have Red Lobster in the Boston area? All I've seen there is "Legal Seafood", which frankly isn't as good. The trout is too dry.

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I am moving from Chicago to Harvard.

I'll try and make the team there; whether or not they will let me play for them is out of my control.

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I'd like to play on that. Also, was there any talk of reviving the history tournament? I was bummed I wasn't able to attend that last year. I was seriously considering attempting to write a History Singles for CO before Teitler asked me to help him edit CO itself. I might still do it if Seth ends u...

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Stupid Matt Weiner and Sudheer Potru are ruining my bracket.

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Don't diss this stuff. I grew up on it.

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According to Wikipedia, as of right now, Coke 2 is sold only in the Yap province of the Federated States of Micronesia, American Samoa, and Quebec.

Can anyone confirm any of this?

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On the flip side, a standard pronunciation is easy to get from online dictionaries, many of whom are likely to be more credible than Wikipedia. Yes, but not necessarily in any standard phonetic orthography. As far as I understand, different dictionaries use different ways to write pronunciation. On...

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Yeah, pronunciation guides are no good unless we have a universal phonetic orthography in place all over quizbowl. Otherwise, it's impossible to tell what sound the writer wants you to say. Though, sometimes I have seen pronunciation guides put BEFORE the tossup rather than inside of it. That seems ...

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In my mind, the real question is this:

Mueller vs Basileus. Who wins?

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I'm sure that us poor college/graduate students can come together and raise enough money to send this kid to Missouri.

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I would be willing to contribute questions for this.

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Yeah, I guess that we might want to stray a bit from meta, to make the avatar themes more accessible to new people, high schoolers, etc. Perhaps a "Great Moments in March Madness" theme, where our avatars feature (with dubious veracity) the college bball accomplishments of assorted figures...

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The newly-discovered material at the MO quizbowl forums gives us more than enough Mueller material to ensure a unique Mueller-related avatar for everyone who wants one.

I think we would be spitting in fate's face if we did not do this, after she was kind enough to give us so much material.

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My freshman year I secretly began writing a screenplay called "For Ten Points", about a rag-tag team of misfits and neer-do-wells that somehow manages to mesh together and, after many montage scenes, wins ACF Fall. But I never finished it. And now somebody stole my idea, at least kind of, ...

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This is fucking ridiculous. A format shouldn't be relegated to one thread -- especially when we allow multiple threads for ACF and NAQT regionals -- just because the admin has a grudge against them. This is just blatant unprofessionalism, especially on a site trying to be a kind of official forum fo...

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if you do such-and-such a thing on such-and-such lab equipment, what happens?

How would you make that pyramidal?

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Matt Weiner wrote: I always know where overly hard questions come from; it's not teams who consistently write ACF packets.

Isn't that what editors are for?

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I don't think ACF Regionals is "broken" in any major sense. Sure, there are problems with individual tossups and bonuses, but these are problems inherent to tournaments in general, rather than inherent to ACF Regionals in specific.

I'd very much like to see more of the same.

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Some other behaviours that should be avoided in tournaments to make them an enjoyable experience for all concerned: -Do not act like a jackass just because you're better than most everyone else at the tournament. Pretty well everyone there already knows you're good and those who don't will find out...

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That's true; with the advent of Intel Macs and BootCamp, that will become less of a problem. However, the emulator argument is absurd, because Windows emulators for Mac cost like $100+. Nobody should be forced to pay that to run a freeware statkeeping software. I can tell you, however, that at ACF R...

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grapesmoker wrote:there's no reason not to use SQBS

How about if you don't use Windows?

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Andrew can tell you that I don't like basketball, and yet I'm not calling for its elimination. I don't appreciate having thoughts put into my head, or motives put into my heart.

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That's still major overrepresentation for hockey. I'm sorry, it's just not a major sport in North America anymore.

6:6:5:2 may be more appropriate.

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Just so this doesn't become the 100th tournament discussion thread to become derailed by a discussion of hockey questions, I thought I'd remark that there were exactly four hockey questions in the set. A tossup on Hasek, a tossup on Orr, a bonus on the Beanpot tournament, a bonus on "players w...

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Edit: Also, the geography questions seemed to be similar in style to each other. For the most part, the questions asked about physical landmarks, capitals, etc. I'd have less of a problem with them if they incorporated other subjects into them. Also, the literature questions seemed to be similar in...

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I heard a rumor that only 24 teams in each division rather than 32 will qualify this year. Anyone else know something about this?

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To clarify: I mean a "junior" packet submission tournament where less experienced quiz bowlers' questions could be used independent of the questions used in MLK actual. All that does is delay exit, not prevent it. What is going to happen when those teams age and lose their junior eligibil...

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I would hardly say that quizbowl today is not a game of speed, anticipation, and recall. There are many buzzer-races in a given game; be it between two specialists on a lead-in, or between everybody in the room on a giveaway or on the first easy clue. In my observation, many games, especially betwee...

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did you really think Penn Bowl was an improvement in the areas you discussed? I thought I put in some pretty hard leadins and final bonus parts there too. I think the argument they are making is that the Penn Bowl lead-ins were clear (that is, you could tell what class of answer is being asked for ...

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Ryan Westbrook is widely spoken of as an eccentric when it comes to editing philosophy. I don't think the habits of his that you mention relating to MLK are that widespread in the work of other editors.

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My problem with the Brandeis Brief tossup was not the subject matter, but the fact that they used it as a generic term, rather than as a specific term. The actual Brandeis Brief -- the one filed by Mr. Brandeis himself -- is pretty famous. I read it in an American history class my freshman year, and...

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Gabriel Lyon still goes there, doesn't he? If he's not their official contact, I'm sure he at least knows who their official contact is.

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Bear down.

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Did Chicago end up sending a freelance packet? If so, was it used?

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On the books: When I ran ACF Regionals last year, I made a similar mistake and got a lot of crappy books from the discard box of a local used bookstore, many of which were academic journals from the 1970's. My thinking was this: ACF-type players really have a "I don't care" aura to them. T...

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15 D1 teams, of which 32 will qualify?

I like them odds.

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http://uchicago.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2229601429

There's a link to the group.

I know that the url says uchicago in it, but I think that the link will work for any facebook account, regardless of what your primary network is.

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OK. I created a group called "College Quizbowl" on Facebook. Please join it.

I will try to invite like the 5 collegiate quizbowl players that I am friends with on facebook to this, but if this is to take off, people are gonna have to join this by looking it up.

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