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Peter, I'd personally vote for the strongest possible combination of the B team that played tournaments this year. Berkeley B, for example, would probably be the ICT team and not the ACF Nationals team I'd consider when making out my ballot. It's actually the other way around. The ACF team was the ...

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Conquistador wrote:I'll be starting a history PhD at Berkeley, and expect to continue playing.

Following in the footsteps of Mr. Gammage, I see.

i never see pigeons in wheeling

Are you tired of Quinterest being incomplete and not getting a complete picture of database hits? Are you tired of having to search for that one question on Edwidge Danticat buried in a set from those years where it was cool to write about her? Introducing ASEEMSDB(TM), the first all-purpose solutio...

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There could be a video camera on a tripod set up in just one room and recording for the entire day of competition, with post-editing removing the breaks. That way, no one will have to set up something between each and every round.

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I recorded part of the first match of the finals on Corry Wang's phone.

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Charbroil wrote:Much of this information is available on NAQT's website here: http://www.naqt.com/hs/state-organizations.html

Many of the organizations on that page do not promulgate good quiz bowl. We should have a list in hsquizbowl that exclusively points to organizations dedicated to high quality competitions.

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Hi Daniel, I'm Ankit Aggarwal, and I help run the quiz bowl circuit in Northern California, including co-directing the California Cup tournaments at which I believe you competed with Davis. I also moderated at the tournament Holmes won in December. What high school are you going to attend? If it's i...

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Dmitri Shostakovich wrote:What are some good books on the history of ancient Egypt, the history of the ancient Near East, or the history of ancient and classical Japan?

For surveys on these topics, classes of mine have used:
Egypt, Greece, and Rome by Charles Freeman
The Japanese Experience by W.G. Beasley

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Is this set written for teams or will people be playing this SOLO? Does trash/pop culture refer to things outside the SW universe that refer to the SW universe (like Robot Chicken or Spaceballs)? And lastly, will you translate this set to common non-Galactic Basic sentient languages like Shyriiwook,...

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Would it be possible to mirror this elsewhere?

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So our team had a fairly good season last year, but we were limited by the number of tournaments we were able to attend. This year, however, our Athletic Department has been gracious enough to count us as a sports team and fund all of our competitons. This actually has given rise to a new quandary....

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Les Remparts de Seville wrote:S
3/3 Fine Arts (40% Visual Art, 40% Music, 20% Other)

What does "other" mean in this context? What specific fine arts media?

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Our aim was slightly harder than "regular" difficulty (comparable to Prison Bowl, GSAC XX, a bit easier than BELLoco). We are charging $10 per team that attends your tournament. I'll go ahead and point out that according to last year's Morlan adjustments ( http://hsqbrank.com/2013-2014-st...

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tossups purely on children's/YA literature tend to play poorly I'm not sure this is actually reflected in the conversion data (the three YA literature tossups in the 2014 HSNCT had a 96% conversion rate; MSNCT which for obvious reasons calls for significantly more YA lit, had an 88% conversion rate...

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Siegfried wrote: Probably should've gotten more sleep, rather than binge on Red Bull, but no excuses.

Middle schoolers binging Red Bull? Why is this a thing now? And moreover, stop doing it. It won't end well.

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Nicholas, if we're running Collegiate Novice next year, we could set our own eligibility restrictions to avoid this issue. It is true that there are some incoming freshmen in the California college circuit who should not be playing EACN, and I think we can use our own discretion to resolve potential...

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Saratoga is one of those teams that only sporadically attends quiz bowl tournaments (they only attended one quiz bowl tournament this year, in no small part because of my persistent nagging). I knew about their incredible prowess having witnessed them firsthand in each of the three NHBB regional tou...

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If I may interject, no matter what the format you're playing, you're going to have teams absolutely getting creamed. In the local "bad" format I played in High School, the same 7 or 8 teams were always at the top and the same 7 or 8 teams were always at the bottom. This never stopped them...

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Can you post the tossup on multiple realizability?

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For the first time I can remember in a tournament, there were multiple economics questions with substantive clues from financial economics (volatility and exchange rates), so thanks, economics editor! I just had a couple quibbles with alternate answer lines, as the tossup on Discourse on Inequality ...

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Stats for SUBMIT are now up.

Congrats to Stanford A for their victory over UW in the first game of an advantaged final, and thanks to all staffers!

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If I were tasked with changing up the 4/4 of the distribution that the 3/3 of RMP and 1/1 of social science currently constitutes, I might suggest 1.5/1.5 "belief" (mythology, religious literature, theology, religious philosophy, etc.; must have either 1 or 2 myth questions), 1.5/1.5 &quo...

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What about California? 32 of the 200 teams in Fred's rankings are currently in California, it's rapidly gaining popularity here, and players from California have to travel a huge distance (which likely includes pretty expensive plane flights) to get to any sort of camp.

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I agree with Matt. If we hadn't booked the hotel room before being informed that the competition wouldn't happen, Berkeley would've just flown home that night. There's no "clean slate" about this.

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There are also two listings for Amador Valley A: one called Amador A and one called Amador Valley A.

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We anticipate that Stanford, Bellarmine, and an open team of high schoolers will attend this tournament.

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Hello everyone, This is the official announcement for the Submission-Utilizing Berkeley/Maryland Invitational Tournament (SUBMIT) mirror to be held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, March 8. This event will be a packet submission tournament aiming to be roughly the same difficulty as last year's Terrapin ...

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What about no longer extant countries?

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Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote: Beartolt Becht
Beartotl Brecht Memorial

Duplicate.

California Cup is a series of tournaments, and the individual tournaments in the California Cup series that were played so far are Beartolt Brecht Memorial and California Cup #2 (those are the names that should show up on the database).

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But yeah becoming a philosophy master seems to me like less of a hassle than other subjects. This might be true at the high school level, but college level philosophy questions which engage with texts directly are much more difficult to get a handle on and require deeper knowledge of a philosopher'...

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Gonzagapuma1 wrote:Lit:
American/British: Tanay
Euro/World: Chris

History:
American: Ankit
Euro/World: Puma

Science: Brian

Fine Arts:
Painting/Other Art: Tanay
Music: Ophir

RMP:
R/M: Tanay
P: Arun

SS: Ankit
Geo/CE: Tanay
Trash: Isaac Bertrand Hirsch

I'm doing R/M.

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I recommend ... Meditations on First Philosophy . Really? Uh yeah, it's one of the most influential philosophical works ever. I don't recommend it because it's a great work of philosophical reasoning, seeing as how modern philosophers avoid the label "Cartesian dualist" like the plague, b...

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Of course, nothing beats reading the actual works themselves. If you want to investigate the foundational works of Western thought, I recommend reading material like the Platonic dialogues (particularly The Republic) and Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy.

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I'm sure there has been a thread on this before. My apologies if this thread is a repeat of a previous thread. What are some good ways to study for philosophy? My experience with the subject is practically limited to some simple connections. (utilitarianism->Bentham or Mill), and it just appears to...

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Nor would I, but as I was informed of the situation from the moderator, he explained it that Chattahoochee self-corrected immediately before competition was ruled wrong. I ruled that the answer could be accepted in that case; if there really was a noticeable delay between the player saying competit...

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Can you post the question on evolution? 11. Alfred Russell Wallace wrote an essay from Ternate, Indonesia positing this idea. Reverend William McLean brought a suit opposing the “balanced treatment” that required this idea’s counterpart be given “equal time,” which was also the subject of the Louis...

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Can you post the question on evolution? 11. Alfred Russell Wallace wrote an essay from Ternate, Indonesia positing this idea. Reverend William McLean brought a suit opposing the “balanced treatment” that required this idea’s counterpart be given “equal time,” which was also the subject of the Louis...

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In the first packet (think it was Caltech), tossup eleven and bonus eleven are both biology. In a later packet, the second tossup was on "Buddha" and the bonus was also religion. Randomization is completely random. Which means a limited number of coincidences w.r.t. matching tossup and bo...

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In another later round, on the first tossup, the moderator wanted Toyotomi Hideyoshi's full name after my initial answer of Hideyoshi. I think this was a case of excessive underlining, or it's possible that my moderator misprompted me, I never got a look at the question. I wrote that question and o...

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Mike Bentley wrote:Is there a date for the Berkeley mirror yet?

We still have to resolve that because of conflicts with other events. It might happen as early as January 25 or as late as May 3.

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Stats are up: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/ .

Fixed link --JTH

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As a current ACF Fall editor, it seems to me that the way to resolve this would be to group the massive number of packet submissions we receive into a consolidated final packet of 3-4 submissions. It would give us much more flexibility, reduce the number of replacements we have to write, and throw ...

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As a current ACF Fall editor, it seems to me that the way to resolve this would be to group the massive number of packet submissions we receive into a consolidated final packet of 3-4 submissions. It would give us much more flexibility, reduce the number of replacements we have to write, and throw a...

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I already read packets but the information really sticks when I read it in a textbook Reading textbooks for depth of knowledge is actually way more important than reading packets. You are doing the right thing to win over the long run. For history summary textbooks, I would recommend the following ...

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Another big one: how to fundraise or how to frame funding requests for college/high school administrations. This seems to be the primary problem with getting teams from my region to multiple national tournaments because flights to the Midwest/East Coast are costly.

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Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:I don't think posting example questions from a Chicago Open side event and a college tournament is exactly addressing the point at hand.

Oh ok, I misinterpreted his statement as saying that art film isn't part of the fine arts canon in all of quiz bowl.

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One character in this movie goes to a fortune teller where he is told "She doesn't love you! Get over it!", while the main character of this movie wonders "Why should I kill myself by worrying when you end up dead anyway?". The protagonist confronts the titular person after runn...

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Then we should only make it out to "Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania"?

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How much of a West Coast schedule is even there at all? Are any of Michigan Fall, Penn Bowl, or DRAGOON getting mirrored in either NorCal or SoCal this semester? Clearly the solution is to play the Skype mirror...right? Yeah, we'd love to have some California teams play this. We're also going to do...

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How much of a West Coast schedule is even there at all? Are any of Michigan Fall, Penn Bowl, or DRAGOON getting mirrored in either NorCal or SoCal this semester? None of those (with the possible but unlikely exception of Penn Bowl). We're running Collegiate Novice and ACF Fall in Berkeley this seme...

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