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Could I see the tossup on virtue in packet J? thanks! After the “life of growth” and “life of perception” are ruled out in one text, this concept is discussed as a possible function for man. A book titled for this concept claims that the “state of grave disorder” of its author’s field is due to a f...

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Could I see the tossup on virtue in packet J? thanks!

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If you're talking about buzzing at an earlier point in the question, then knowing more will help you buzz there. Quizbowl questions adhere to the principle of pyramidality, which means that harder clues come earlier in the question in order to reward people who know more about the subject. If you're...

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I don't think it's a good idea to name a set that is clearly academic in nature "TRIVIA".

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Also, the science distribution doesn't add up to 5.

edit: none of the categories add up, actually

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1. Voice clipping for both moderators and players. i.e. words getting cut off. This most commonly happens at the beginning of questions and on short phrases like the moderator saying "correct" or a team giving an answer. Push-to-talk helps with this but I'm of the opinion that it's too hard of a fe...

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How do you study, and how often?

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This set is currently seeking for an editor for biology and chemistry. If you are interested, or if you know anyone who would be interested, please contact [email protected].

Edit: This spot has now been occupied.

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Not related to this specific incident, but I think that PACE, NAQT, and ACF should do more outreach about the misconduct form. I think that all NAQT tournaments, ACF tournaments, and PACE qualifiers (as well as pretty much every other tournament) should require the hosts to inform all players and co...

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Khan Academy's AP Art History video series is a good resource.

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The Housewrite will be written by our own team for use in this this tournament. Question Sets are WIP. Writing an entire set in a month will be quite an ordeal. I would recommend finding an existing set (perhaps partner up with one of the sets that got delayed this spring, like Prison Bowl or STASH...

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Seems as if the recent college polls are rather similar-ish, so maybe I’m alone here. Perhaps other people wouldn’t find this sort of discussion as interesting as I would? I agree, some more detailed discussion would be nice. I'll start things off with my own team, and I'd encourage others to creat...

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Is this going to be held on an existing set, or will it be housewritten?

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The question distribution will include the following: History 4/4 - American, Anglo, Euro, World Literature 4/4 - American, British, Euro, World Science 4/4 - Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Other (Astronomy, Earth, non-comp Math) Art 3/3 - Visual, Auditory, Other (Musicals, film, architecture, dance)...

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I've created a video series featuring Arjun Nageswaran in which I explain my opinions and takes for each of the polls. Make sure to like and subscribe so that I may achieve my dreams of becoming a full-time quizbowl content creator.

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One team that I'd like to remind voters about is Naperville North. Judson and Geoffrey have an absolute lock on science from what I've seen.

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Alright, so this post has gotten a lot of discussion going, which is good. I will try to address a few points in this post. The posts I've quoted below aren't necessarily the ones that I'm responding to, but they represent the discourse to which I am generally responding. I love the idea of rebrandi...

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College nationals are currently too difficult and don't provide the role that it should for many younger college players. Additionally, the field is full of grad students who have been playing the game for a ridiculously long amount of time. There needs to be a legitimate undergraduate championship ...

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Is there any way to send an automated direct message to players upon joining the Discord server? Making clarifications about packet security before they post would be a good way to make sure there aren't any slip-ups (although of course this wouldn't account for malicious behavior).

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I'm happy to announce the inaugural Discord Online Guerilla Solo tournament, or DOGS. DOGS is a packet submission IPNCT-style tournament run online. Information and registration can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mp3 ... sp=sharing.

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On the "Create Account" page, the Google Maps widget isn't loading, making it impossible to create an account. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks!

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Danny Kim, Bryan Wan, Arjun Nageswaran, and I recorded a pre-season podcast for Illinois that can be found here.

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The two teams are in a voice chatroom where they can hear the moderator read the questions. There is a corresponding text chatroom where the players can type "buzz" to buzz. They are usually run on either Discord or Skype.

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A_Failure wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:24 pm Should this not say 2019-2020?

Fixed, thanks.

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This thread is usually up by now, so I figured I'd make it. Post any predictions for the upcoming season or any announcements you'd like to make.

Also, join the Illinois Quizbowl Discord for discussion, packet readings, and other stuff.

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I'm looking for a teammate for The Unanswered Question. Please contact me if you'd like to play with me!

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Is there a reason that science is 4/3?

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From my own team: Ethan Ashbrook is an elite literature player. He put up the best stats of any literature specialist at HSNCT and similar stats to James Kuang at PACE. Additionally, Ethan should be considered for your top 20 individuals, as he led Uni in scoring at PACE and his generalism is shadow...

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Challenger-Almaden, Churchill, and Hopkins seem like the top contenders.

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To address the literature questions: "The Lamb", while famous, is probably too hard to toss up at this level. It hasn't been tossed up before at any difficulty. The Comedy of Errors is a bit too hard, a Shakespeare tossup cluing from his comedies would have been more appropriate. Richard Lovelace is...

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(Assuming this is the place to post this, sorry if it isn't) In general, I thought this set was decent. There were some minor things that stuck out, though: -Court case being classified under "miscellaneous" when it should have been "history" -Bio bonus where the easy part was either "protostome" or...

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https://www.historybowl.com/resources/s ... resources/

Packet reading is probably going to be your best way of cramming.

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http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/54 ... eamdetail/

db0wman · Re: Huskie Bowl @ NIU (February 9, 2019) Could we get a field update? Thanks.

Could we get a field update? Thanks.

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Montgomery Blair and Ed Clark played on the online SGI mirror.

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/55 ... eamdetail/

EDIT: It also looks like you don't have Penn Bowl's main site or the SGI main site.

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I'm not even the first scorer on my team, so I'm not sure how I'm 5th.

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Groger Ranks made this spreadsheet that compiles stats from the top 50 Groger-ranked teams.

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In case this changes anything: Willard Airport in Champaign has added a connection to Charlotte, North Carolina.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/ ... te-nc.html

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Hey all: Arjun from Stevenson and I have started an Illinois HSQB Discord. Ideally, it'll be a way for players to connect with the circuit and discuss upcoming tournaments. Here's the link: https://discord.gg/VuXzEpY . I'd like to ask non-Illinois people to join the main Discord and/or the HSQB Disc...

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Additionally, NAQT tossups tend to be much shorter than those found in housewrites.

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Could I see the tossup on special relativity? There was a clue early on that mentioned a relativistic quantity, which threw me off.

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World history and music isn't much of the distribution. Try looking around into spots not filled by your team and you may find subjects worth studying.

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Voters may find this spreadsheet to be of use.

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Scobol solo predictions? As Kevin did last year, here's a list of people who I think would have a shot of making the final. Ethan Ashbrook Myself Tim Cho Hanson Hao Abraham Holtermann Jimmy Humphrey Jamin Kim Kevin Kodama Olivia Lamberti Jonathan Lau Matthew Lee Alex Morris Arjun Nageswaran Sophie N...

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Downstate teams lose basically everyone. I predict a similar order to last year, with Fremd and Barrington moving down a bit and Sandburg moving up.

I think my team and Barrington are both getting some strong rising freshmen.

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https://stats.neg5.org/t/HypsCmeCb/pbi- ... _r1_gEcSQG

Piasa Bird III, 1/13/18, run on DEFT

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Uni Lab is attending, currently #19 on HSQBRank.

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I thought that the sectional set was well-written for the most part. One problem that I noticed was that the questions seemed inconsistent in difficulty--some answerlines were far too specific for this level, such as the Checkers speech and the Calvin cycle tossups, while others were too easy, like ...

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I noticed that there was very little RMP on the regionals sets--was this put in place just at regionals so that the weaker teams would be able to convert a higher percentage of the questions, or is the low ratio going to be used at the sectionals and state tournaments as well?

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