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Michael and Sameer, I can put one of you on a team with Henry Baer (who does know visual arts).

As for Discord, I haven't used it but will try it out on Monday -- I'll close the field and put out an update then.

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Yo dawg where's the film at Clark Smith has volunteered to contribute some jazz and film for the next edition of this, but he won't be able to write it for this packet. However, all areas of fine arts will be represented in future sets. A shootout format is a good idea considering that this is only...

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For those of you who don't know, I've been writing the third packet of my FACL (fine arts common link) series. This packet will be noticeably harder than the previous packets (which are posted on the collegiate packet archive), probably around CO difficulty, and is tossups-only. For those of you who...

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My apologies if this should be posted elsewhere; feel free to move it if need be. For those of you who don't know, I'll be a freshman at Berkeley this fall and played pretty well at HS level. Over the past few months, particularly during the summer, I've been trying to study deeper to get better at ...

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In general, I really enjoyed playing this set, and I found many of the tossups to be on underappreciated but "important" material. As a vis arts player versed primarily in the canon, I had fun learning about a lot of new things. On the other hand, there were a few tossups which seemed like...

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When there's enough information, would you be able to announce how long practice will be going on for? I may attend if it continues for a while after 5.

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benmillerbenmiller wrote:What's your target difficulty on this set?

The target is PACE difficulty.

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Not sure why, but the forum won't let me attach the promo packet to the original post.

EDIT: The packet is now attached.

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Hello! IMSA is pleased to announce the return of IMSANITY for the 2017-18 school year! IMSANITY will be available for mirrors starting January 13, 2018 and is written at around the HS nationals (PACE) level. The set will be written by members of the IMSA A team and edited by Dennis Loo, Sarah Angelo...

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Quick question -- what time will the tournament be starting?

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Jakob and I still need a third player -- PM either of us if interested.

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I firstlined a tossup on adagios from a YouTube comment about Albinoni's Adagio that I had read the previous day.

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Wes Janson wrote: For what it's worth, my younger brother (Matthew Lee) from Dunlap will be attending IMSA next year. He played a bit of NHBB last year and enjoys studying history.

Matthew was in fact one of the people I was referring to. Looking forward to (hopefully) seeing IMSA play next year!

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Depending on how much people study, I'd expect IMSA to be strong again next year. The rest of the team besides me, Nathaniel, and Alex is still there, and plans are already in place for how to cover our subject areas. Also, quite a few sophomores who played quizbowl at their old schools will be comi...

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Edward Lansdale wrote:As possibly the only American quizbowler with some knowledge of cricket

You're definitely not the only one

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I might be jumping the gun a little bit (since there's no confirmation on other side events yet), but what would be the planned start time on Sunday?

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To add to the DII teams that Jon has already posted, I think Minnesota can make a splash next year. Brian Kalathiveetil and John Waldron are both science players, but they complement each other pretty well in other areas and will only improve with more studying.

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Jakob and I would appreciate a third player, preferably one who knows architecture and photography. If interested, you can reply here, PM me, or email me at [email protected].

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I recently graduated high school, and over the past year, I've become a pretty good vis arts player (usually getting ACF regs tossups within the first half of the question at NASAT practices). I generally do well with tossups on pre-20th century artists, or later famous artists (e.g. Picasso, Dali, ...

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I'm a recently graduated HS senior who can probably 10 a few things in fine arts and Roman history. Basically if you're looking to have fun (possibly try a little bit) and need a teammate, I'd love to play.

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I will already have played NASAT, but would probably be interested in playing Cambridge Open and the other side events.

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With respect to the Lisbon tossup, I buzzed in on the Methuen treaty (which has come up before for Portugal, so I actually thought that clue was dropped a bit early).

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Yes. No Illinois team will win it, but Naperville North will finish ahead of both Stevenson and Barrington, instigating much debate regarding whether the set was hard enough to differentiate the top teams (completely ignoring that Naperville North has been that good, too, all along). Can we just ta...

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That being said, I've also heard that Timothy Christian and Uni Lab are very good. IHSA isn't the best measure of performance, but players like Tim Cho could go a long way if exposed to more good quizbowl. On another note, although the Illinois circuit might not be as strong next year, it will defi...

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I know this is a bit early, but does anyone have predictions for the Illinois circuit next year? As (finally) an interested observer rather than a player, I'll be interested to see how things unfold.

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I read Anna Karenina, loved it, remembered the clue I buzzed on exactly, and still couldn't produce the answer you wanted. I have also read Anna Karenina within the past two months and was not able to convert the same tossup there. In general, the issue I had with common links was their vagueness (...

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Auks Ran Ova wrote: the geography was overall probably a little more human-focused than physical-focused

On that note, would it be possible to provide some examples of physical geography clues/tossups? I recall little to no physical geo in the set.

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The amount of architecture in the tournament was the same as last year (4/4), although it's certainly possible there were more architecture clues in non-architecture questions. This was indeed what I was referring to -- I believe there were a lot more architecture clues (referring to cities, for ex...

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One additional comment: there was one particular packet that was riddled with grammatical errors. I don't remember which packet number it was, but our moderator (don't remember who) had a lot of trouble reading it. I'm not sure what the production schedule for PACE is, but I would think these errors...

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Rob, I appreciate everything you and everybody else involved have done for PACE. This was definitely the best high school set I've played this year. I also felt there were a few areas where the set could be improved (and have not been mentioned extensively by other people). These include: -Reuse of ...

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The best solutions here would be to: 1. Ensure that tournament hosts make clear to these newer schools the degree of difficulty of the field and questions 2. Add more JV/novice level divisions at tournaments 3. Encourage more smaller, local tournaments on pyramidal questions that the top teams sit ...

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There are more than a thousand high school academic competitions across the country, and most of them use Questions Unlimited. What is your source for "most"? (As opposed to, say, "some.") Not my own words. Maybe this is only a meme among my team, but it's here. http://www.qunli...

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Sit Room Guy wrote:
rahulkeyal wrote:I'm going to be heading to Berkeley in the fall, and definitely plan on playing quizbowl there. I know James Malouf of La Jolla is also planning on attending Berkeley and joining their team.
Also Pranav Sivakumar

You beat me to the punch, Jakob. Look forward to playing at Berkeley next year!

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I'm going to have missed the Brad Fischer/Noah Prince golden age of IHSA writing by just one year. Feels pretty bad man. I feel the same way. On the other hand, at least there is a golden age of IHSA writing in the first place. I'd be glad to help with proofreading and just about anything else. Goo...

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I originally signed up for the April 2nd Team Illinois tryout on the Google forum, but I would now like to attend the ATROPHY tryout instead. Would it be possible to change this?

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Brad,

I would be interested in joining the meeting. After around 10 would work best for me, but I can probably make it earlier if required.

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I didn't expect anything particularly great from the set, but some of the questions looked like they were taken straight from textbooks.

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So this certainly happened. As all regionals are over, I am assuming that as none were postponed I can proceed with question content. These were some of what my team saw as the more egregious questions: Agreed except on a few counts: The Humphry Davy tossup wasn't too bad -- they did mention nitrou...

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After the Kaneland tournament, I was planning on making a post proclaiming Ankush the best third scorer in the state, but after NAQT State, I think it would be more reasonable to say that the top third scorer is either Sunny or me, or maybe the third scorer on a full IMSA or Carbondale. Ankush Baja...

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