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London Calling vs. More Than a Feeling - tough one, figured I'd vote slightly against type and throw Boston a bone. If it was band vs. band, or almost any other Clash song, or even remotely close, I'd probably go the other way. Run Through the Jungle vs. La Grange Wish You Were Here vs. 25 or 6 to 4...

I'm not sure I understand what you hope to achieve with this oddly antagonistic line of questioning. What sort of response to the question "what if the target difficulty of ACF Winter is not easy enough?" could possibly satisfy you? What do you even expect possible responses to be? The onl...

I'm not sure about that with Alman. He put up very good numbers at MIT Penn-ance , where he might have cheated as well for all we know. He played fewer tournaments, so it is difficult to compare between tournaments. His numbers before 2012 are much lower than his 2012 numbers, so on the one hand it...

I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in how the quizbowl community has handled the events of the last few days. Apparently we have reached the point where vague posts led to random accusations in a Discord server, which led to piles upon piles of fancy-looking statistical analysis that ser...

Surrender vs. Right Place Wrong Time - did Less Than Jake cover "Right Place Wrong Time"? I think not. Short People vs. Closer to the Heart - this is a weird Rush choice, but it's better than Randy Newman. La Grange vs. All Right Now - classic double "oh right that's what that song i...

Iain raises a good point in the Internet Charity Tournament thread: I also trust the TDs and think they are well equipped to deal with cheating, but having a planned response that actually explains the direct consequences one will face for cheating is still a good idea so that we don’t end up in clo...

Contra my esteemed colleague Prof. Boyd, I think this is a reasonable middle ground when there's suspicion but no concrete proof, especially as we're entering a (hopefully quite temporary!) period in which many events will be held online by necessity -- "several people have expressed some conc...

Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Roxanne vs. Fooled Around and Fell in Love Lust For Life vs. Baker Street Marquee Moon vs. Let Your Love Flow Highway to Hell vs. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)...

4/61: Dumuzu v Athyr - Dumuzid really got screwed when Inanna allowed the galla demons to drag him down into the underworld as her replacement, and as all good Magic players know, screw beats flood. 29/36: Mounichion v 1 Crocodile - I feel obligated to support both the late spring and delicious, del...

3/62: Thermidor v Self-Existing - I imagine my votes will turn against Thermidor in the future, but this was a pretty easy choice. Furthermore, I ALREADY SELF-EXIST AROUND THE CLOCK! 30/35: Pédale v Frederick - a hard choice, and I expect it will face stiff competition in later rounds, but I had to ...

Right, yes, but staffers were asked in an email from going on three weeks ago to please hold off on doing anything until more info was announced, and most people's original flights are scheduled for just over two weeks from now. I'll do my own thing if I have to, but I thought I'd check in to see i...

1/64: June v Sip - June's gonna be a tough one to take down, especially thanks to, um, Flag Day. Looking forward to coming up with less stupid vote comments for it in future rounds. 32/33: Qiyue v Kisaragi - gotta set aside my normal preference for summer over winter to vote for the month that is al...

Great Bustard wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:31 pmDecember 27-30

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45 seed: Daθušō v Āθrō - tough choice here, but I'm erring on the side of fire due its more immediate relevance to day-to-day life. I'd be happy to see either (or indeed both) of these months in the tournament. 51 seed: Xšaθrahe Vairyehe v Amərətātō - not to question the august (heh) authorities of ...

40 seed: Thargelion v Anthesterion - winter? as if 49 seed: Gamelion v Metageitnion - an exception to the above guideline, as I assume this would be the month I was born in. Also, Gamelion is friend to children everywhere. 52 seed: Sabatu v Abu - who doesn't love Gilgamesh 58 seed: Addaru v Tisritum...

A Dim-Witted Saboteur wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:35 pm Voted to eliminate wayeb because it's unlucky

I voted for it because intercalary days aren't months! Including it would shatter the sanctity of the month-based competition, much the same way that ill-intended spirits could upend Mayan society.

Could the mods move all these comments about saving this year's nationals questions to another thread? This explosive tangent is distracting from the actual discussion about virtual alternatives to the cancelled national tournaments. Don't worry, the mods can handle this! The thread has indeed been...

If you'd like more anecdotal evidence, I only didn't immediately buzz on Triticum because I was surprised to hear it there and waited for another clue just to be sure I wasn't making a mistake.

I think this would be an interesting thing, but I would urge people to treat the markings like the ordering of clues in tossups--they represent what the writers/editors think are the proper difficulty. They probably are "correct" for the most part, but not always. In other words, they do ...

My thoughts: 1. I don't believe any NAQT college tournament needs to be timed. SCT doesn't use the timer and ICT, which attracts excellent staffers and logistics people, doesn't need to use the clock. 2. Because of that, I would be fine with NAQT's college tournaments adopting 5/5/5 (well, I don't ...

show us the TD hat Jacob

(voted for Northwestern due to its various advantages, such as food options and proximity to other potential events)

Haaaaaaaarry Whiiiiiiiiiite wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:00 pm Since people are already making teams for CO proper, should there be a team formation sheet for CO Trash?

Have at it here!

I voted for all the dates initially since I'm available for them all, but would now like to indicate my preference for the 18th.

I think Mike's points are generally accurate.

Furthermore, this:

lifchrs wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:22 pmthe category with the greatest number of questions (at least in NAQT packets)

is not really accurate--as you can see here, "literature" gets a smaller part of the top-level distribution than both history and science/math.

I don't think any of us would personally have a problem making it to the tournament that weekend, but the CO Trash team would prefer to avoid the weekend of August 1, since that conflicts with Trivia Nationals and could thus negatively impact our attendance. Luckily it looks like the July dates are ...

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway - I don't in any way think either of these songs are "the best song of the 2010s", but the nature of brackets means that I'm just gonna choose the one I like more. It's actually fairly close between these two--they're both p...

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids Seconding these votes. literally everything is better than Mr. Brightside no whatever wins this bracket is as good as hey ya! extremely no EDIT: oops, missed the "personal...

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen - zzzzzzzzzzz Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye W...

rob pointed out that voting for a song means you are voting for it as (your idea of) a "best song of the decade", not just the song you like more, which was a helpful reminder to me, that also makes me want to abstain more. To be clear, I'm certainly doing both! Whether or not I like a so...

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me - both pretty good! Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean - RIP short song Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion - surprisingly similar, in ...

Damn, apparently missed the deadline by half an hour but here are my votes anyway. #1 Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. #16 Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best - this is a good song, unlike any Lana del Rey song I've heard. #8 Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. #9 Weyes Blood - Movies - I feel li...

Our goal is to support the entire collegiate community on several different fronts, including the production of high-quality tournaments for a range of different audiences and the development of resources for the benefit of collegiate quizbowl at large. Is this ACF's goal, or your understanding of ...

#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness - Get Lucky is perfectly fine, but I'm really enjoying Motion Sickness. #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) - ...

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix - not bad! Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me - not a particular inspiring choice here, but Shut Up Kiss Me is a decent song that I'm, crucially, not already extremely tired of. Bon Iver - Hol...

connor.mayers wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 3:04 am
Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:46 am can't stand mumble rap.
Why do olds hate fun???

You are free to enjoy whatever you like, my tiny baby son.

Gonna try to stay involved with this one; seems like a good way to stay relatively current/expose me to new music I don't have as much time or inclination to otherwise keep up with. #15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel - tough one, but Teenage Dream is just a really good pop song. ...

I don't foresee any further good coming out of this topic as it is, so I've locked it. I will echo Tejas's encouragement to check out the PACE mentorship program in this and future years.

At my site, that tossup was gotten just out of power on the clue about the very famous musical Radiant Baby . This is maybe too late to be particularly useful, since I failed to join the forum after reading the set with any sort of alacrity, but I took note of this while reading the thread and thou...

I think "try to find interesting prizes, when you can" is reasonable advice for TDs, but putting it in such a personally-aggrieved and/or condemnatory context isn't a great way to communicate that. I also agree with Jonathan about Digital Fortress. Thrill as the protagonists struggle to fi...

It seems somewhat poor timing for Murakami given the sort of tepid response to his last novel, Killing Commendatore. Ah, but that would make it so much more trollish if he wins. Only makes the odds get better, I think. Also looks like with Dacia Maraini not among this year's favorites, the position...

Aw, no FJM :(

Congratulations to the human players on not losing to Robobo-bo Ro-bobo at all this year.

Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:18 pm Can a private forum be set up for this?

Can and now has; you can go ahead and request access the normal way.

Agreed; I really enjoyed this, highly recommend playing it, and am looking forward to finishing the finals series

I also thought the linked two-part bonuses were a pretty good compromise to avoid the larger time commitment of a full tossup/bonus format.

This tournament was a ton of fun! I definitely recommend it.

I too am in search of an Unanswered Question teammate.

EDIT: playing with Auroni!

I initially thought this was another video game music tournament and was only mildly enthused, but now that I've read it correctly I'm extremely enthused.

please don't run muses saturday morning!

Edited my form response to make this clear as well, but I would greatly appreciate Super ACRONYM being held Sunday, since circumstances have made it such that I'm likely going to end up getting into Champaign on Saturday.

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