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I feel a bit self-conscious about my straightforward and reserved writing in a thread where it would give me no greater pleasure than to heap lavish and grandiloquent praise upon every one of my benefactors, especially after reading some of said florid prose upthread, but here goes nothing anyways ...

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I'll be moving back to my hometown of the Bay Area for work. Despite my best efforts, I'll probably show up to an open and/or staff a tournament in the area sometime.

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I'll probably post again in this poll about other categories soon, but I'll also comment on the auditory fine arts ballot relatively quickly since I'm currently sitting bored in lecture. I'll be a bit self-indulgent and agree with Jeremy above that some order of Karan, Chris, and I would probably ...

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The "New York Ballet" protest was upheld because we found plenty of serious scholarly materials (both period specific to the clues in the question and in contemporary scholarship) that called the New York City Ballet the "New York Ballet" (and furthermore there weren't any other ballets commonly ...

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A protest on the New York City Ballet tossup also occurred in a prelim game between North Carolina A and us, which ended up swinging the game in their favor after being initially ruled a win for us. The other team negged with "New York Ballet" and protested that the answer should be acceptable, and ...

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I thought ICT this year was stellar. In my opinion, all of my categories were very well executed and I very much enjoyed playing the tossups as a whole, which included getting some unexpected out-of-category buzzes that I didn't think I had in me. I don't know what the "correct" trash distribution ...

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Geoffrey's post mentioned two of the harder science tossup answerlines in ICT. I wanted to follow up by praising them. I greatly enjoyed the Dresselhaus tossup (although this may have been inflated by it showing up in a critical tiebreak round that I was playing). I thought it was an excellent ...

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If this is the purpose of the conversation we're having, I'll post the DMA "other science" distribution (12 packets), with no further comment, in order to spark further discussion: 5/5 Math 3/3 Astronomy 3/3 Earth Science 1/1 Computer Science, split 50/50 between "theoretical" and "applied" (Nobody ...

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The tossup on "Not Like Us" seemed really quite easy, and I'm told the buzz curve (at least for our mirror) reflected this, with over half the buzzes coming in the first/early second line. I enjoy the content of the tossup and it was cool to see it come up in an ACF set, but it may be a little too ...

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Minor error, but the Gogol tossup (J19) says The title object is wrapped in cloth and thrown off the St. Isaac’s Bridge in a story by this author before it is found in a loaf of bread by a barber. This is incorrect, as the barber throws the nose off of the bridge after he finds it in his bread. Not ...

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Apologies: longpost and potential spoilers of answerlines ahead. I edited Chemistry and European Literature for this year's Winter. Hopefully everyone generally enjoyed these categories, despite the answerline quibbles pointed out for a certain chemistry tossup. Chris mentioned in the first post ...

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- molecules TU: could i see this one? i buzzed with alkanes which was antiprompted to hydrocarbons which was antiprompted to molecules. i was surprised that an intended antiprompt for alkanes was not worked into the question; my perception is that newman projection is largely taught in intro ochem ...

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I really quite enjoyed playing the classical music-related fare at this year’s CO, and on the whole I think Ophir did a fantastic job. For me, the biggest strength was that the answerline selection was generally quite grounded and rewarded canonical things that people study and listen to, which p ...

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I’m once again back with some more takes on various other portions of the ballot. Apologies for yet again clogging this thread, hopefully this will be my last post here. Firstly, my teammates: I feel like Nathan Zhang is overlooked as a player more than he should be; this dude fights for every c ...

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Here's a spitball of names to consider for your science poll, after glancing at the aggregate Nats stats for the category: Vincent Du is a top 2 science player (and possibly 1). He went 38/4 for 360 points in top bracket while being remarkably consistent; his lowest points on a subcategory of ...

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I’m sure I’ll be back with more opinions on the overall and subject polls later, but for now, some thoughts on a couple of the bonus categories in the poll: I’d like to submit my teammate Jacky Xu as a candidate for Newcomer of the Year, and a possibility for Rookie of the Year as well. To my knowl ...

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Just wanted to make a quick post praising the music in this set (as others have already done); might be back with more comments on other categories following the posting of packets. In general, I really liked the answerline choices, the cluing, and how accessible the category was compared to some of ...

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Could I see the tossups on Les Chants de Maldoror and the commonlink on The Emigrants ? Overall, I thought the literature was very enjoyable to play and it clued a diverse variety of genres and geographies. I did notice a relative lack of short fiction tossups, with the Kawabata being only one I ...

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I am pleased to announce that the Upstate NY site of 2024 ACF Regionals will be held at Cornell on Saturday, January 27, 2024. The tournament will take place at Hollister Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45am and gameplay will begin at 9am. I, Richard Niu, will be the tournament director ...

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Thanks to all the writers and editors for producing what seemed to me to be a very intellectually exciting set! I thought the set overall was whimsical, interesting, and contained many good ideas. I did feel that the biggest thing was that difficulty seemed kind of disjointed; in some categories ...

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Registrations as of 11/14/23 (teams/buzzers/staffers):

Cornell (3/3/as needed)
Columbia (1/0/0)
University of Rochester (2/1/0)
RIT (1/1/1)

We would appreciate one more registration in order to even out the field!

rhn26

I’ll add some comments about the classical music. Overall, I quite enjoyed the questions and appreciated the variance in stuff that came up (and appreciated the inclusion of cello content, but I am clearly biased in that regard). I especially liked the tossups on Stravinsky, Britten, and C major (at ...

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I thought Winter was overall a very fun set and I enjoyed playing a long tournament on it. I played on a shorthanded team and was able to get occasional buzzes out of category due to the difficulty, which is always a great feeling, and I thought overall the categories I am more well-versed in were ...

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Cornell Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce we will be hosting a mirror site of ILLIAC II to be held on November 18th, 2023. I, Richard Niu, will serve as tournament director. The opening meeting will be held at 9:00 AM EST, with the first round beginning 9:15. Location and Directions: The tournament ...

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For the benefit of those who aren't on the mainQB Discord: Hoy Road Parking Garage and the lot near Sibley Hall are both free on weekends, and both are within a 10 minute walk of Uris Hall. There's also a smaller parking lot outside Big Red Barn that is probably the closest to Uris, though it may ...

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We are pleased to announce that the Upstate NY site of 2023 ACF Fall will be held at Cornell University on Saturday, October 14, 2023. The tournament will take place at Uris Hall (109 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45am and gameplay will begin at 9am. Raymond Wang ...

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seconded. vote for Richard as newcomer of the year. Unfortunately, my unfortunate tenure of quizbowl started last year, so I’m not exactly eligible for a newcomer award. Who you should vote for Newcomer of the Year: The top scorers on the Waterloo ICT team definitely deserve consideration; their r ...

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It’s been a great second season of quizbowl. Thanks to everyone I’ve played with or against, all the tournament staffers, and set editors/writers for making it happen! Obligatory nice things to say about people from my school: All four members of Cornell A are super good at quizbowl. Jonathan Tran so ...

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Looking back through the packets, I thought the Gretchen tossup was excellently executed. I'm by no means a literature player, but I read David Luke's translation of Faust, Part I for a music class I'm taking based on adaptations of Faust, and I was ecstatic when I heard the "Juniper Tree" clue and ...

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Could I see the "klezmer" tossup in Packet 7? Judging from the older version posted in this thread (and my memory of what I heard during the online mirror), it said that Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes was published as the "overture no. 34," but I can't seem to find any sources of that online ...

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One of my teammates (Sarod) first-clued FEC, and another (Yared) first-clued landlords. Thanks to whoever wrote those questions!

Echoing the praise of the Guan Yu question; that tossup was one of those rare tossups that really made me want to learn more about a subject.

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Yeah, I'm not sure if this is just an "our team" thing, but cluing the basic plot of The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? firstline seems easier than other clues about A Delicate Balance or Seascape . The Janacek tossup also seems quite soft, but it's possible that 1. X. 1905 is less famous than I thought ...

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Could I see the Albee and Janacek tossups? Those stood out to me as being disproportionately easier than the rest.

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I’m not knowledgeable enough about the community as a whole to offer up a complete ballot, but I would like to shill some Cornellians. I think the top three scorers on Cornell A, who all scored very similarly to each other (within about 5 ppg at both nationals), all deserve votes in both the top 25 g ...

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Thank you to everyone who came out to the packet reading, and we had a great turnout! I’d like to apologize for a couple of the non-unique clues, which cost some people great buzzes, and I hope I fixed them before uploading the packet. Overall, however, there were very, very many impressive buzzes e ...

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Hi everyone! I'm planning to read a 20-tossup packet of all-classical music questions at 9pm Eastern today, March 20, in the mainqb discord. I'd estimate the average level of difficulty to be around Regionals difficulty, but it's quite swingy, with some questions noticeably harder and some easier ...

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May I see the tossup on Haydn cluing works dedicated to him? I believe the first line was referring to Beethoven's first piano sonata (op. 2 no. 1), but I couldn't recall the dedicatee, and I had already forgotten that aspect of the question when the Dissonance quartet was score-clued and negged ...

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