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Field update:
Alabama (2/1/0)
Auburn (1/1/many)
Bevill State (1/2/1)
Clemson (2/2/2)
Florida (4/2/0 [nice])
Georgia Tech (1/1/0)

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A bit late, but I felt pretty hosed by buzzing in on the Flann O'Brien tossup on the clue about Jem Casey and saying Steinbeck (due to Grapes of Wrath) and being negged. Obviously the prior clues rule out Steinbeck, but I clearly did not know them.

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#15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia Here's a good chance for me to complain that maad city was chosen as Kendrick's entry for this tournament. I realize its his most popular song, but I think for someone who's produced as much conscious rap this decad...

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#15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia Here's a good chance for me to complain that maad city was chosen as Kendrick's entry for this tournament. I realize its his most popular song, but I think for someone who's produced as much conscious rap this decad...

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel Hadn't heard the St. Vincent song before, it was okay. Teenage Dream is a super good pop song. #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. This one was pretty easy; I'm not the biggest Tribe fan but this song is clear...

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A small nit to pick: in the bonus about Art history textbooks, Michael Cothren should also be credited as one of the authors of Art History.

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Gene Harrogate wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:17 pm
100% Clean Comedian Dan Nainan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:23 am Laurie/West:

Caleb Kendrick
Alston Boyd
Derek So

Team: Rob Carson

Alt: William Golden
Derek So today: "What even is Fall Open".

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I am pleased to announce that Auburn University will be hosting the Southeast mirror of the Michigan Winter Tournament on Saturday, January 18, 2020. The tournament will be hosted on the Auburn University campus in the Haley Center (351 W Thach Concourse, Auburn, AL 36849). This is a closed tourname...

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Laurie/West:

Caleb Kendrick
Alston Boyd
Derek So

Team: Rob Carson

Alt: William Golden

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I played on a team who submitted a packet that wasn't used (Purdue B), and heard some of my clues used nearly word-for-word in other packets, often very early in tossups I would not normally be able to get since they'd normally be well outside my categories. This strikes me as something that should...

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DROP: Aseem Keyal
ADD: Rob Carson

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DROP: Mazin Omer
ADD: Aseem Keyal

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DROP: Darren Petrosino
ADD: Minnesota A

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For Laurie/West:

Sharath Narayan
Mazin Omer
Nitin Rao
Oxford A

Alt: Darren Petrosino

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For me/Emmett:

ADD: Mazin Omer
DROP: Thomas Gioia

ADD: Darren Petrosino
DROP: Will Nediger

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jdpasspawn wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 6:56 pm ADD: Sharath Narayan
Drop: Ganon Evans (or did we ever have him?)

Me/Emmett already had Sharath

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1: This Achebe tossup seems really hard, and seems reasonably likely to get frauded at "Obi," though perhaps I'm wrong and people actually read his short stories. By the time "Obi" is dropped (which is also a well-known clue, given that he's the protagonist of one of Achebe's mo...

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Some round-by-round feedback on the 10 packets I played: 1: This Achebe tossup seems really hard, and seems reasonably likely to get frauded at "Obi," though perhaps I'm wrong and people actually read his short stories. Jim was a good deep cut. Both teams agreed that the giveaway to the Tu...

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I plan on giving feedback on all of the rounds I played when I get a chance, but I wanted to say for now that the clueing in the lit tossups felt too hard at times, generally about once per round. Examples off of the top of my head include the tossup on Achebe, which clued mostly from his short fic,...

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This tournament happened. We had a 6 team field, so we ran a double RR. Georgia Tech A cleared the field, going 10-0, so there was no final. I hope all teams had a good time!

Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... /complete/.

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I can't say I'm distressed by the state of college quizbowl in the southeast or south Atlantic (the two circuits I guess South Carolina is part of). It seems about as healthy as usual, probably more so. Not as robust as some regions, but plenty of teams playing and stuff. Fall novice at GT seemed l...

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Is opera part of classical music or other arts for this tournament?

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While I think the Alice Munro tossup was fine, it did seem quite difficult to power, so perhaps the earlier clues could be made easier or the powermark could go longer. She's also quite prolific so I could seeing her being an author that's hard to pin down and figure out which stories can be used as...

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Thanks for interacting with my feedback, Will and Jakob! To elaborate a little more on a few of my points: bildungsroman felt fraudable in the sense that I couldn't think of any other possible "specific term required" literary genres, especially considering the question makes it pretty cle...

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Some feedback, by packet, with some more general feedback weaved in: P1: witch doctors was a cool idea, even if I didn't know any of the clues really. I also really enjoyed getting Johnny Cash points from the prisons tu. The IBM tossup felt like it had a pretty long powermark, as it becomes pretty e...

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DROP Ganon Evans
ADD Sharath Narayan

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I believe the "stone" TU in packet 12 should accept rock as the churches in Lalibela are often referred to as "rock-hewn." I know I learned about them using that language in an intro art history class, at least.

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Just chiming in to say that Keith Haring seemed fine to me, and I edited a bonus themed around him for last year's WHAQ

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Thanks for all of the writers and editors for their hard work on this set. I thought it was quite good, and definitely one of the better sets I've played. I also plan to go through all of the twelve packets we played at our site and give feedback where I'm able (lit, vis art, some history), which I'...

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A copy of the logistics email I just sent out: Hello all, If you're receiving this email, that means you've registered one or more teams to participate in EFT @ Auburn this Saturday. If that's no longer the case, or if the number of teams/buzzers/etc you're bringing has changed, please let me know A...

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You get the team that you played. If you played "Texas A" and they are outperformed by "Texas B" you still get "Texas A"s points. If no "Texas A" plays, then you get no points. So, if Chicago labeled their top 3 teams for a tournament X, Y, and Z, fantasy tea...

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For the teams section, when teams decide to split into "even" teams (such as Texas at EFT), will fantasy teams which start a school's A team (for a school that doesn't have a nationally relevant B team, so I guess Chicago and some others are exceptions to this) be awarded points for "...

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Laurie/West:

Caleb Kendrick
William Golden
Nitin Rao
Texas A

Alt: Thomas Gioia

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An update: we are nearing our field cap of 12, so get those registrations in! I expect we should be able to expand up to a final field cap of 16 teams, but I need to confirm a few additional staffers first.

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Field update (teams/buzzers/staffers):
Alabama (3/1/0)
Auburn (2/1/many)
Emory (1/0/2)
Georgia (2/2/0)
Georgia Tech (1/2/0)
Vanderbilt (3/1/0)

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I am pleased to announce that Auburn University will be hosting the Southeast mirror of the Early Fall Tournament on Saturday, October 5, 2019. The tournament will be hosted on the Auburn University campus in the Haley Center (351 W Thach Concourse, Auburn, AL 36849). This is a closed tournament, bu...

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Both Chris and Matt have given excellent advice and I don't have a lot to add, but I'll just note that I go to Auburn and am plugged into the Southeastern circuit pretty well, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about the circuit! We tend to host 1-2 college tournaments per semes...

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This year's Liberty team was incredibly impressive, and I was ecstatic to be able to watch an Alabama team in the afternoon rounds. I knew they were good coming in, but I certainly wasn't plugged in enough to know they were that good. They seemed especially strong on history, with strong lit and sci...

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Let’s aim to meet at the same place and organize things at 8:00 tonight.

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Some of the (unfinished) packets will be played tonight at 10:00 PM. We can meet in the lower level conference center area by the scrimmage check in. We can meet and find a room from there.

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I'm running a mirror of No Banter Please, a trash tournament by Erik Christensen and co., tomorrow (Saturday) night after play has concluded. More information can be found in this thread: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=22691&p=358091#p358091 . Players and coaches are w...

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Here's a team formation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14MP7G2MOTuZqfAjjyWEa-GvPTs5jv03VjX9W5jpzpV0/edit?usp=sharing . I added names of people who already posted in this thread. If there's enough interest we could shootout some of the "extra" packets tonight; we can fi...

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Post in this thread if you’re interested so I can get a rough idea of how many people to expect.

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I’m pleased to organize a last minute mirror of No Banter Please, a trash tournament written by Erik Christensen & co., for Saturday night at MSNCT (5/11/19). It should be noted that this event is in no way affiliated with or sanctioned by NAQT and has nothing to do with the MSNCT. I haven’t ful...

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Since most of Auburn A is eligible for this poll (Me/Jared/Zach all played PB + Spartan), I'd like to take a second to shout out my teammates. Garrett is excellent at history but is ineligible for this poll. He basically only buzzes on history + Geo/CE and Astro/geology, and usually clears 20 PPG (2...

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My approaches to visual arts and biology have been detailed elsewhere, but I'd like to elaborate upon my approaches to my most interesting and novel assignments: Geography, Current Events, and Other Academic. I have more thoughts about the tournament as a whole that I might share later, but I just ...

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I thought the tossup on "Rudy Tomjanovich" could have been made both more interesting and more accessible by being written on "fighting (in the NBA)." The Tomjanovich question primarily used clues from the 70s in the NBA, and a question on fighting could easily be clued entirely ...

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Caleb Kendrick
Eric Xu
Mike Etzkorn

Florida A

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Are there any updates on this such as confirmation it will be ready and what time at HSNCT you're hoping to read it (would personally prefer it not conflict with META but that's just me)?

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Contrary to what was stated in the podcast, Georgia Tech's D2 ICT team will be composed of myself, Akaash and Varun (from Northview), and Jake. Good analysis on the podcast! This team is really good (and probably underrated in this poll--- their PPB at Regs is comparable to many of the teams in the...

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