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With apologies for going back to a much earlier point, one thing I will add about unusual formats and distributions is that it makes it more difficult to find a question supplier. There are a lot of good questions produced each year, but being picky about the format and distribution means that you c...

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Please archive this thread.

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Ecuador left OPEC over a year before that question was used. I wonder if that means that they recycle questions, they only use written sources when they write their questions, or they just get some things wrong. The question also states that the South American countries are the only OPEC members out...

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Please archive this thread.

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Thanks to Matt for starting this discussion. Personally, I don't have to look up old threads to know about Yogesh Raut, Andrew Ullsperger, and Greg Peterson, because I coached against them when they were in high school. The connection between quizbowl and bar trivia is old and common--a few generati...

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As an update, the Solo set was used twice in Illinois and once in Iowa. The Reinstein Set will be used at VCU and two tournaments in Missouri. The IESA style set has been purchased by 29 Illinois schools and one Alabama school for a variety of uses. I will be the official IESA question provider for ...

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This might be the thread you were looking for.

While I am in this thread, I am casting votes for short bonuses and easy parts that test knowledge.

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There are two separate issues here. One is the uncertainty of the identity, which should be treated as uncertain. This is pretty easy to handle with the way a question/answerline is worded, and it should be handled as such. The other issue is the privacy of a living person, which I don't think we ha...

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You can see the results using the link from Jonah above. Congrats to Uber-Competitive co-champions Carmel A and Buffalo Grove A and to Standard champion Timothy Christian. A huge thanks to Jeff Price and Barrington for hosting. A big thanks to staffers Robert Bianucci, Colby Burnett, Andrew Cheun, P...

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I could use a couple more buzzers and a couple more staffers, but we're pretty close to where we need to be.

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I'll accept any registrations that come in this week. After that registrations will be accepted at my discretion.

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Mike Bentley wrote: ↑Fri Nov 19, 2021 2:55 pm Any chance the admins could...

No, but it's possible one of them might start an internal discussion on it that doesn't go anywhere.

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A huge thanks to Jeff Brigham and Mike Woolley at Sandburg for hosting this tournament. They helped me out a lot. Without them, this tournament would have been on Discord, and it would not have been nearly as good. Another huge thanks to Jonah Greenthal, whose program worked wonderfully and who gave...

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If you are playing or coaching in this tournament, please check the Registrations and Field at https://www.scobolsolo.com/2021/, and let me know immediately if there are any discrepancies with reality.

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This tournament will run with 104 students. See the website for the list of students. See the list above to see who is moderating. Because there are 104 students instead of the regular 128, this tournament will use some safety matches so that the number of students behaves like a power of two even t...

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If you want Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Carmel, Chattahoochee, Detroit Country Day, Glasgow, IMSA, Lambert, Auburn, Uni Lab, or Fremd, you should avoid December 18.

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I need one moderator for every four players. I currently have 26 moderators and 104 players, which works. From now until the end of the day this coming Friday (11/5), I will take additional players if I can find moderators. If a school supplies a moderator, then they can definitely have up to four s...

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Is there a policy for the way answer lines should read for people who change names? There are a few reasons why people's names change. 1) Marriage. If somebody changed their name through marriage and always used their married name from that point forward, is it always the case that both names should...

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I don't know whether this counts as a road or as unrelated, but Faulkner used many of the same locations in many of his novels, such as Jefferson Square, which has a few roads leading from it. Do Faulkner and Hardy count, or are their novels considered related?

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I could use a few more moderators at Solo on November 13 at Sandburg. Let me know if you are interested.

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It was apparently decided that cutting a tossup and being opposed to the idea of mask mandates was a valid reason to submit to the misconduct form. I find it worrying that those reasons are, in certain minds, sufficient to, in essence, ask for a ban from Quizbowl through a form originally meant to ...

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I need a lot more staffers. Let me know if you can help out. My current list is: Nevagay Abel Luis Angeles Micheal Bennett-Tejes David Brewczynski Winston Brzykcy Colby Burnett Andrew Cheun Ernesto Cruz Claudia Danowski Owen Doak Laura Grigg Matt Hasquin D. Matthew Jordan Mike Laudermith Jonathan Le...

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Does S.R. Siddarth, the only person to win a NAQT HSCNT and swing control of the Senate to the Democrats, count as famous? For all you kids who don't remember, SR Sidarth was filming Republican George Allen when Allen was running for re-election for the US Senate in Virginia in 2006. Sidarth was wo...

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The 2021 Reinstein Varsity Tournament will take place on December 18 at Barrington High School in Chicagoland. We will have an Über-Competitive Division and a Standard Division. The Arcadia Set will be used in the Über-Competitive Division, and NAQT IS 207A will be used in the Standard Division. (Th...

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This is a complicated issue, and I disagree with the characterization of it as "egregiously unprofessional". Having children doing one's work is not inherently bad. Our economy relies on high school workers all the time, and our schools have spent the past few decades increasing student le...

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This is an invitation to participate in the Twenty-First Annual Scobol Solo, to be held on Saturday, November 13. The tournament is at Sandburg High School in Orland Park, just southwest of Chicago. This is the main site of Scobol Solo. You can enter by using the form at https://www.scobolsolo.com/....

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A few announcement, some of which are relevant to this thread. Tournament announcements will be made shortly. The VCU version of the Reinstein Set will exist. The VCU version of the set will contain approximately 100 new questions written to modify this set from the Illinois distribution to a more t...

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I would have changed it if I cared.

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Outside of the strict character limit Mike mentions, it is very easy to write questions that do not use pronouns. Avoid using he/him/his early in all of your tossups, and you can ask about Catherine the Great as many times as you want to. (Gendered pronouns at the end might be a good thing to narrow...

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Thanks to Jonah, Reinstein QuizBowl now has a website.

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Does anybody have ideas on how to set policies for a return to in person quizbowl? I think the two main issues are masks and vaccines. In Illinois and some other states, the masks issue is very simple. Everybody has to wear a mask if you are holding the competition at a school. I am curious to find ...

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Thank you for posting this. It is very good, and in my opinion as somebody who writes easier sets everything you wrote scales perfectly well.

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This announcement actually covers four or five sets. Scobol Solo is a tossup only set. It contains 14 regular rounds, one replacement round, and a 60 question championship round, with tiebreakers for all rounds. It is about 400 tossups total. I am hoping that the main site will be at New Trier (near...

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One way to solve part of this problem is to not toss up Mali Empire in high school regs- sets.

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It's posted.

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To be fair to my generation, if you look back on TV shows, pop music, and video games from the 1980s, a lot of them were bad. Movies, as always, were a mixed bag.
It also may have been influenced by David Letterman's shtick.

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We have now had more than 72 teams fill out the form, but registration is still open because we have only received 44 down payments. If your team wants to play NSC, make sure we receive your down payment soon.

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I am going to focus here on regular level high school quizbowl. I'll readily admit that a lot of this does not apply to collegiate quizbowl where there are English majors and grad students playing in addition to the fact that people are above the age of 18 and thus have had more time as mature reade...

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We are now up to 60 teams filling out the form and 22 sending at least a down payment.

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Because it has been a long time since I have done this, I decided to revisit the issue of African Americans in question sets . This effort is not connected to the Panel discussion on inclusion and racism in quizbowl , but let me take this opportunity to encourage you to attend the Panel discussion o...

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I am not speaking here for anybody or any organization except myself. I am not currently an employee of NAQT, though I was a question writer for them in the past and wrote some You Gotta Knows this year. I'll also state that I have not seen a single question from this year's HSNCT or NSC, and I do n...

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We have now had 46 teams fill out the form and 17 teams send at least a down payment. With a field cap at 72, we recommend registering in the next few weeks if you want to be certain to get in the field.

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The Solo set was used in Iowa and twice in Illinois. Let me know if you want to use it anywhere else. If there is no more interest, I'll post it in a month.

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3 Prince, "When Doves Cry" vs. 5 Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime" Thanks to Mik for organizing this, and thanks to the voters for having this come down to two great songs. Bop (harvey), "Vibe" Eric Clapton, "Running On Faith" John Mellencamp, "Pink Ho...

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5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" vs. 3 Prince, "When Doves Cry" 1 Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean" vs. 5 Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime" The winner of the first matchup gets my vote in the next round. More importantly, I can now guarantee that a good song will wi...

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I am happy to announce that, thanks to a suggestion from Athena Kern, Emily Gunter has recently written a version of her recruiting post for the PACE Quizbowl 101 site. Emily's original post is here. The updated article is at the Student Recruitment link at Quizbowl 101.

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BRACKET LEFT 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" vs. 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come on Eileen" 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" vs. 3 Prince, "When Doves Cry" BRACKET RIGHT 5 Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime" vs. 6 The Clash, "Rock the Casbah" Mi...

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To be clear, I'm not judging people who vote for Michael Jackson. When people vote for Joy Division over Guns n 'Roses, however, that's completely different.

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Michael Jackson was a horrible person. Evidence seems to suggest this, and I'm not sure to what degree it's influencing voting (although I'm sure it is), but an open question is to what extent it should matter when evaluating the music itself. You're not going to punish MJ by not voting for him - 1...

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1 Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean" vs. 13 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Free Fallin" Michael Jackson was a horrible person. 6 Joy Division, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" vs. 7 Guns n'Roses, "Sweet Child o'Mine" Sweet Child o'Mine is awesome. 9 Hall & Oates, ...

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