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I think powers are kind of like three pointers in basketball, they're okay but I could do with out them. Given that most ACF tournaments are poduced in pretty compressed timeframes, this proposal would also create extra stress/work for the editors. I think the status quo is just fine. This is more ...

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The reason I made my point about literature editing is that I think there is a substantial difference between someone committing to "look over" questions and someone committing to edit questions. The latter implies a greater commitment of time and effort, and the former seems (to me) to su...

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I would, generally, prefer for announced sets to have a designated literature editor. I'm also a bit confused by specifically pointing out that you will be writing the entirety of the philosophy and social science. Why is this true for you and not for the other editors? Frankly, given the quality of...

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Progcon wrote: note that questions on played-out answerlines like Arcade Fire will not appear.

is this what the kids call the "availability heuristic"

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Tibetan literature wrote:On the topic of team hyping, Oklahoma's full A team will, for the first time since ICT two years ago, actually be together at a national tournament. Also, we have the number 6 D value. Just saying.

ya these ppl are rly good

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One might be tempted to derive conclusions about the skill of all Chicago teams from the mixed results of the A team, but I would caution against this. In particular, Matthew Lehmann is exceptionally good and only improving, but all the players on the B are highly capable of converting tossups agai...

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One might be tempted to derive conclusions about the skill of all Chicago teams from the mixed results of the A team, but I would caution against this. In particular, Matthew Lehmann is exceptionally good and only improving, but all the players on the B are highly capable of converting tossups again...

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Cheynem wrote: Am I incorrect in thinking that Stephen Liu is also a good film player?

Also judging from Scattergories 2, no.

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Am happy to contribute tiny bits of literature and philosophy as well as the lowest-level generalism that could even be discussed as such.

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I don't think anyone has mentioned Nathan Weiser- judging from the 4 rounds of Scattergories I played with him, he's quite good at film indeed.

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I'm a bit confused as to what the complaint being made is. Is the complaint that "thought" takes up too much of the distribution? If so, I fail to see how this is true - 15% seems like a high upper bound, assuming thought is taking up a philosophy slot, a social science slot, and an "...

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First of all, thank you to everyone (Mr. Fischer, Mr. Wang, Mr. Prince) for writing this set! It was definitely a step up from previous years, and I really enjoyed playing it! I'm looking forward to playing the Sectional packets and hopefully the State ones as well. A couple things I noticed-- Scie...

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Who is on the editing team for this tournament? Is the target difficulty similar to years past? The current description of the difficulty doesn't contain much content past "it will be good."

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I very much look forward to underperforming at this tournament

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merv1618 wrote:
merv1618 wrote:inb4 hey ya wins

but I enjoy this idea
oh look

my god, what sort of modern nostradamus could have foreseen a one seed winning

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With a little research and some reviews, you can often get cuts or dye jobs from current cosmetology students that are quite good for a fraction of the price such a cut would run you at a standard salon. (The "research" portion is of course paramount, as there are obviously students who wi...

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As James gestured towards, any correlational argument does seem to fail to account for teams that got prevented from qualifying by this problem - and given the relative difficulty of qualifying via D-value in previous years, I can't imagine the effect is insignificant.

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Toxic

Chicago

Hey Ya!

Hurt

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
Toxic by Britney Spears
Paper Planes by M.I.A.
Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast
Rehab by Amy Winehouse
Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
Hurt by Johnny Cash

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:Hey Ya!

Bad Romance

Take Me Out

Rehab

Feel Good Inc.

American Boy

1901

Crazy in Love

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson

Wake Up by Arcade Fire

Toxic by Britney Spears

Hips Don't Lie by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean

Paper Planes by M.I.A.

Ignition (Remix) by R. Kelly

Chicago by Sufjan Stevens

Man, this round is really hard!

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Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz

Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake

Idioteque by Radiohead

Fallin' by Alicia Keys

Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons

Hurt by Johnny Cash

Crazy In Love by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z

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Hey Ya! by Outkast I mean... yeah. The Funeral by Band of Horses This song is a bit overlong, but I don't much like Time to Pretend. One More Time by Daft Punk Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Of course. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine All My Friends by LCD Soundsy...

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:99 Problems

Hips Don't Lie

Supermassive Black Hole

Paper Planes

Ignition (Remix)

A-Punk

Chicago

Last Nite

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jasongg17 wrote:I took scores on my 19-tossup musicals packet for some reason, which came out as follows:

John Lawrence: 110
Greg Peterson: 100
Isabel Archery (?): 55
Dakota (?): 45
Alex Damisch: 10
Erik Christensen: -5
Adam Sperber: -10

I'm Isabel.

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Crazy - Gnarls Barkley Wake Me Up When September - Green Day Mr. Brightside - The Killers While Mr. Brightside is obviously underseeded, I don't like it as much as some seem to. If the Rihanna song had been Disturbia I probably would have voted for it, but oh well. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson...

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*My second favorite song would be "Since I Left You" by The Avalanches, but I wasn't expecting that to be included in the first place Seems eminently reasonable to assume that one of the lead singles from one of the most acclaimed albums of the decade would make it on over some of the mor...

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I will now allow a 24 hour period of people to say every song they would include instead of what I did so we can ritualistically cleanse ourselves of such feelings. Edit: you can assume any answer from me to be "I hate you and your family," probably. just let us vote instead of being salt...

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Love Story – Taylor Swift Dashboard – Modest Mouse Helicopter – Bloc Party Family Affair – Mary J. Blige American Boy – Estelle featuring Kanye West This one was hard for me, but I think American Boy is a boo through-and-through, whereas I don't like the second half of Mykonos quite as much. Machine...

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Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue

Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson

Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks

Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips

No vote cast

Zip City – Drive-By Truckers

no vote cast lol

Chasing Pavements – Adele

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No, you can't ban Luke Tierney from tournaments just because you found out today that his politics are bad. I'd appreciate it if you followed me in my "let's not make this about one specific person" mission and not mention any names. Thanks Hmm, you don't want to make it about any specifi...

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I'll sign up. I'd like anything from Univocal, Dalkey, or the Stanford Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series, excepting Suicide by Leve and A Tomb for Boris Davidovitch, as I've already got those. If books aren't your vibe I also enjoy cosmetic products (like an interesting lip or nail color) and col...

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This set was the highlight of my weekend. I love the mix of textual clues and extratextual clues that actually rewarded the way people engage with literature - the Walser tossup clueing his photograph comes to mind but I'm sure there were others. I had an immense amount of of fun even buzzing only l...

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Auroni wrote:Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/

Should note that according to my own records, I was given 7 too many tossups and 3 too many negs in the game against Matt+Kai, and Jonathan was similarly not given those buzzes.

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Practice will be occurring from 7-10 on Monday in Room 503 of the Regenstein Library. If you're not a student, just message me on Facebook where I'm most likely to see it and you can be let in.

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Could we get a team formation spreadsheet? Hard to form teams if I don't know who is going

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Looking for teammates for Modern Age, Thought Monstrosity, SACRONYM, and Chuck Berry. I've read some 20th century stuff and need someone who knows like, the other parts of the Modern Age distro. I'm uneven on TM but will probably be a good second scorer for someone. Would like to find someone who kn...

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Seconding Ryan - if Stock Clues is done as a shootout I won't be playing or staffing it to keep the packets fresh.

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Practice will be happening in room 404 at the Ref from 7-10.

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I definitely agree with what both Auroni and Stephen said. In addition to the important gameplay effects of that linguistic "padding", I think there's a less important but still real aesthetic effect. I think it's in fact more tiring to listen to a set of six line questions that are a seri...

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Putting aside the problem of your theme, isn't it the case that an ideal tournament has an equal buzz distribution for all questions? For each question, A% of teams should buzz on the first line, B% on the second, and so on. So, your goal should be to have the same number of people buzzing on your t...

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Writing regular difficulty questions for hs probably isn't an awesome way to improve your mats performance, just because the amount of time you spend learning new clues won't be that large - most HS regdiff TUs have pretty much identical second halves with a few clues swapped out, and if you're a fa...

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Starting next week*, UChicago will be hosting weekly quizbowl practices open to the public. All quizbowlers in the area are welcome to attend. If you are not a UChicago student, please PM me, message me on fb, or email me at alstonb[at]uchicago.edu if you are coming so that someone can let you in. I...

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Toystory (bull) wrote:Is this discord intended for college players only or are there plans to integrate high school players into this?

High schoolers certainly went on the IRC. Presumably this is also true of the Discord.

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gyre and gimble wrote:If the field stays at 10 for Thursday, what would the schedule be? I'd prefer a full round robin over a schedule with byes, even if that means there's only one packet available for a final.

I agree with this.

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While it's great that quality writers are taking over the production of IHSA questions, I'd just like to note that this certainly does not warrant referring to Andrew as Mr. Wang.

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You should be considering Jason Zhou for your ballot. Here are two facts about Jason: 1) He is very good at history. If you have played him you should be able to confirm this fact. 2) He has become very good at history despite a systematic inability to take in information about the world. If you hav...

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I'll write more later but I really liked this tournament. Cool philosophy questions on things that actually matter! Fun deep core literature! Cool stuff. (I also had issues because I'm a quizbowler playing a tournament but like I had food poisoning Saturday and it was still a super fun day of qb whi...

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yale student adopts rural patois as schtick, is Cool and Good, more at 11

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Borel hierarchy wrote:
Mewto55555 wrote:We throw one of Kai's rare pepes off the ferry. Say goooodbye to Exooooodia!!!
why are your posts the exact opposite of the other posts in this blog

*the other of course referring to alston's

this was my joke go back to danganronpa dear

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