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I really appreciated the freshness of ARCADIA—even when tackling well-trod areas it did a good job of bringing in new approaches, new cuts, and the conscious effort to bring in the work of people who are typically underrepresented in quizbowl and in the broader sense of the "canon." The bo...

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I really liked the set overall! This was a great first collegiate in-person playing experience for me. A few questions stood out to me: The tossup on the Alps in what I believe was Editors 1 was for me the most unfortunate/annoying tossup of the set to play. The tossup used the indicator "this ...

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In case you need names to think about and fill out your ballots, here are some names: Gus Carvell , RM. He might not make your overall (though there is certainly an argument for him), but Gus should without question make your fine arts ballots. At the DMV mirror of STASH, which was in December (!!),...

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I'm heading to Yale, class of 2025, where I'll play some quizbowl, at least for a year... and I'll be reunited with former teammates Matthew Siff and Nathaniel Rosenberg. Very excited!

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14 packets? Sounds like enough for two tournaments! Looks exciting.

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Reminder that this closes tomorrow!

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As a note—please do not share the content of your submissions with people who are not involved in set production. If accepted, we will probably use the questions in the set. If you've already shared these questions, no worries—I should've been more clear about that. Shoot me an email or a Discord me...

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The third edition of the Regular Academic Fall Tournament (RAFT III), a regular difficulty high school set, is looking for writers. RAFT III will be available for mirrors beginning in the 2021-2022 season, and its distribution will be similar to that of previous iterations. A full announcement for t...

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*sigh* Caleb, we (your teammates) get that you had a bad performance. It happens, we're fine with it. If you don't want it to happen again, the easiest solution is to study more instead of fishing for reassurance/sympathy from us and from the forum-frequenting quizbowl public. You're not the first p...

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So, this tournament happened on Saturday. With the exception of a minor mishap with rosters/scoresheets right before the tournament that caused us to start ~4-5 minutes after 10, the tournament ran fairly smoothly. Depending on the bracket, the tournament ended between 6:15 and 6:45, which was exact...

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I am looking for staffers for this tournament. So far we have about 10-12, which is fine, but I'd prefer to have more to run rooms more efficiently. If people are willing to staff the full tournament this Saturday [November 7th], please contact me at ardelotvilain@gmail.com or on Discord at buffaloz...

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I have sent out invoices and payment information to the contact emails I was given. If you did not receive an email from me, either I have already received your payment or you should check a different email. I will send out an email to staffers shortly. EDIT: I did not send out the email to staffers...

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The initial field is now full. We may expand the field if we get enough staff, however, I would prefer to keep this tournament to fewer than 10 rounds, which becomes logistically very difficult if we have more than 18 teams. Currently, we have 14 staffers signed up. I would like to have two staffer...

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We will not be mandating that cameras be on, however, we strongly encourage that players use cameras.

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Tossup 17 of packet A describes Federico García Lorca as a "Golden age author." Wikipedia describes the Golden Age as taking place from ~1492-1681. García Lorca was born in 1898. I originally clued Fuenteovejuna and Life Is a Dream as the first two sentences of this tossup, respectively, ...

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The initial field is now full. We may expand the field if we get enough staff, however, I would prefer to keep this tournament to fewer than 10 rounds, which becomes logistically very difficult if we have more than 18 teams. Currently, we have 14 staffers signed up. I would like to have two staffer...

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We now have 17 teams signed up! We still have one more spot before going to the waitlist. We will be able to expand the field if we get more staff!

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With a little more than three weeks to go until this tournament, I have received 12 registrations. We really would like to have a full slate of 18 teams, so please continue to sign up! The field list has been updated to reflect the most recent changes. I also realized that I did not put up deadlines...

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If there are enough staffers, would it be possible to expand the field to 24 to accommodate the additional teams?

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Yes, and we will be taking some of those measures indicated on the NAQT website—including trying to keep lunch efficient with a dedicated statsperson, holding moderator meetings before the tournament to make sure everyone knows what to do come game day, have two moderators per room [so one can keep ...

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Absolutely—the field will be updated shortly. Also, I have made the decision that this tournament will run with bonuses. I look forward to hosting this tournament for y'all!

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The sample questions you posted here seem pretty hard for "Rookie" difficulty—they seem closer to a high school regular difficulty

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Is there restricted eligibility for this event? To clarify: Do you want just novices or are other players allowed to play?

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Probably not, but worth a shot—will the packets be posted on this forum?

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I don’t know if the LHC/CERN tossup was too hard. It felt very transparent, on the contrary

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The Tyrean purple dye tossup used "this object" as an indicator, which frustrated me, as it dissuaded me from buzzing in an area where I have a fair amount of knowledge just by virtue of having a misleading indicator, even though I knew the clues that were being read.

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I'd like to echo Caleb's, Lyra's, Vishwa's frustrations about Angikar—this may be read as being angry/whatever about the Duke House team beating us, fine, but that's not what this is. After getting a little under 2 p/g in prelim games 1-4, he put up 8 against us in round 5. I understand that players...

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Seeing the length of the LONESTAR tournament, we are looking for every way to make the tournament run more efficiently. I believe that with the measures we are looking at, this tournament will finish before 6:30 for most teams [all those playing the guaranteed nine games] with a sizable lunch break ...

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This post is reserved for an updated field list FIELD: 18/18 Middlesex [3 teams] Longfellow [2 teams] Monrovia [1 team] Churchill [3 teams] Colvin Run ES [2 teams] Greenhill [1 team, tentative] Herberger [1 team] Howard MS [1 team] Midtown Classical [1 team] Cooper MS [2 teams] Classen SAS [1 team]...

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Hello! Felix Wang [@InfinitePeng] and I will be hosting a closed, middle school only mirror of the regular high school difficulty set RAFT II on Saturday, November 7th, 2020, starting at 10 AM EST. This tournament is not restricted geographically, which means it will be open to ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL TEA...

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I’d like to give some of my thoughts about the DMV circuit next year: National Contenders TJ A I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that TJ will be the #1 team in the country (especially on mACF), given that they have an argument to having the best science and literature coverage in the country. TJ’...

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With all due respect, there are indeed a great number of sets being produced for this season [upwards of 30, 17 of them being standard "housewrites"]. These range in difficulty from high school novice to high school nationals difficulty, meaning that whatever difficulty level you need shou...

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Gabe I’m very excited to hear what you came up with

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I assume that since Maryland and Virginia are both listed, schools in DC are not exempt from playing this tournament?

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Is this real lol Have you considered the implications of this on the broader quizbowl ecosystem? What does you presenting as an alternative to “good” quizbowl organizations mean for your organization? What is the impetus here? Who is writing this and what assurances do we have of question quality? I...

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Stinkweed Imp wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:46 am or just use this one

Ok but is the Allen wrench included

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Just to be sure, these are packets of 24 questions, correct?

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Thanks to everyone who came to play this packet on the Discord! Some fantastic numbers [this packet was destroyed, I believe there were 3 10s the entire game] — I hope this was as fun to play as it was for me to write. Scores are below! Nick Jensen 5 Matt Mitchell 30 IKD 40 Abhinav 15 Erik Christens...

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GDS would like to tentatively claim Saturday, March 6th for the 2021 edition of the Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament, to be run on LONESTAR. We are hoping that we are able to host at that time next year.

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There is an upside to having more sets--it makes it easier to find a set for a tournament. Also, if you get a bad report of a set from an early site, then you have options to switch to. The downside of people not getting rich from quizbowl is one of the oldest downsides in quizbowl. I guess I just ...

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Update: my rather indecisive scheduling style has led to someone deciding they will read a packet tonight. I will plan on reading this at 9:45 PM, eastern time, on Wednesday, July 1st.

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After my last Laws and Treaties packet, I decided to write another packet. I put this together over the weekend, leading to what Matthew Siff called "bad questions that must have been enjoyable to write, and will be fun for someone who hears them." [I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist]...

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No doubt due in part to the pandemic, a series of new sets intended for the high school difficulty [along with returns of older sets, including Harvard Fall and RAFT II], both announced and unannounced, have been cropping up. While I fully support the idea of increasing the amount of people involved...

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I don’t remember much from this set, but one thing is the “Tasmania” tossup, very clearly asking for “this island,” that prompted on Australia. Those are distinct islands, and though they are part of the same country, it shouldn’t be promptable. Overall, though, I thought this set was pretty good.

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Very cool, thank you

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Are there results for this poll?

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Having just perused the responses on the last few years’ player polls after reading this one, I am bewildered by the overall low level of discourse/“shilling” that pervades these threads every year. I would imagine that the purpose of the yearly player poll is to encourage critical discussion about...

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A warning: I will not be dropping a full list, but I will be doing some light shilling. Let's get to some players Matt Siff , in my view, is the clear-cut number one player in the country. Call me biased -- Matt Siff is better than specialists at their categories. He'll firstline tossups in any cate...

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After a reading on the High School Quizbowl Discord server, this set is "clear." I've uploaded it and it should be up once approved. Thanks to all for playing this, it was fun to write!

EDIT: This packet is up!

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I'm planning on reading it to the HS server for those interested there within the next couple of days, then uploading it. It should be up on packet archives by Monday.

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