ACF Nationals playtesting

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ACF Nationals playtesting

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Hi all,

I'm going to convene a group to playtest some ACF Nationals questions, possibly starting tonight if we can get a big enough group. It'll be helpful for me to see the questions played, to get feedback, and to get help noticing any typos or confusing language, so thank you in advance for participating.

I'm going to leave playtesting of questions not my own (or edited by me) up to other editors.

If you'd like to playtest tonight, please join the IRC channel #quizbowl on Slashnet at 9:30pm central. Once we've got a group, I'll email people with specific instructions on how to join the protected IRC channel for playtesting. I ask that only players who are no longer in school participate for question-security reasons. If we don't end up with a critical mass for tonight, I'll leave it for later this week.
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Thank you to my distinguished playtesters for their insight this evening. I'll be hosting another session later this week, let's say Wednesday at 9pm central. Will update if this changes.
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Reminder: second batch of playtesting (probably a bit shorter than the first) will take place tonight at 9pm on IRC. Please join the slashnet channel #quizbowl and await the joining protocol once there. Again, I ask that only former college players not currently in school join. Thanks in advance!
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Thanks to everyone who dropped in tonight. I'm going to host another session on Sunday at 9pm central. I'll post a reminder during the weekend.
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Thanks again to the playtesters for their helpful comments. The next session will likely be at 9pm on Thursday (confirmation to follow)--hope you can make it!
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I'll start playtesting at 9:15 central tonight if folks are around--otherwise we'll wait for Sunday at 9.
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Next installment in playtesting: 9:00 central tonight.
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Hi all. Next installment of playtesting will be Thursday evening at 9pm on Slashnet/IRC. This one will likely be a bigger chunk; hope you can make it!
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Hey, wondering if people are interested in playtesting a smaller batch of questions tonight so we can avoid running out of time Thursday. If you're in, let me know via email so I can gauge whether it would work. The time will likely be around 9:45 central, and I'm guessing it shouldn't run more than a half hour.
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Playtesting is on tonight for 9:45 central in the IRC.
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Hi all, my day got away from me and I don't think it'll be productive to playtest tonight. Let's aim for Sunday evening; more details to follow. My apologies.
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Playtesting continues tonight at 9:30 central. Join #quizbowl in the IRC for more details.
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Next playtesting session will be Thursday at 9ish. More details to follow.
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Folks--

Big history playtesting session tomorrow night at 9pm central in the IRC. Hope to see you there!
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Playtesting begins in ~25 minutes. Hope to see you there.
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After Andrew's session this evening (i.e. beginning around 9:45 pm CST), I'll be playtesting a batch of the set's literature questions in the same irc channel. If you're interested but won't be participating in Andrew's playtesting, PM me.
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As Jordan implies, playtesting will resume tonight. Let's try to meet in the IRC a little early (say 8:45pm central) so Jordan can get plenty of time for his stuff.
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Lit playtesting is beginning now.
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Going to be playtesting 14/14 philosophy and possibly some lit questions starting at 10:30 EST; PM me for irc room details.
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