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Wade Hampton v. Livingston A this match was indeed an amazing one. what really takes it over the top is that after the win, livingston's captain bobby wang strolled to the front of the stage, spread out his arms tony-stark style, and bellowed, "do we have the mandate of heaven?!" we all know the ...

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I'm not sure if these clues play poorly because lead-ins are in general very difficult or because no one knows these clues. I have a feeling it's the latter though, and maybe that's good enough reason to limit the number of these clues in a given set. the former seems just as possible to me. if ...

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I was confused by the third line of the FCC tossup, which reads An essay that decried “you weary giants of flesh and steel” was written in response to a 1996 act that gave this organization “unbundling obligations” with respect to “incumbent local exchange carriers.” I buzzed and said "Bell telephone ...

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no book prizes :(

That aside, this was a very enjoyable set and event! Duke kept it simple and quick, finishing to get us out of there by 5:30. Good work, and thank you!

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I like cookies wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:52 pm https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/9 ... #VirginiaA

bro why does this go to our team detail? nobody needs to see that

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-is keir starmer a medium? especially in a set whose other medium parts include (by my recollection and abduction) austerlitz , owain glyndŵr , and isamu noguchi ? Starmer was marked as the easy part. oh, of course. i think the point still applies to "lib dems," though not to the same extent

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-i thought the criminal law tossup was very strange, partially because the answerspace was very small from a very early point. genuinely, how many "fields of law" (iirc the indicator) are there? it was pretty clear to me, and likely others, what it was talking about a line or two in, but waffled for ...

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a lower bound of ~8 hours (not including travel time) is objectively a long ass time to spend doing... anything? This is especially true of something as mentally demanding as quizbowl. this is very true, and perhaps underacknowledged. at the risk of leaning into "many people are saying this," a ...

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I felt like the Social Science in this set was very Linguistics and Econ heavy, and felt like there was almost no Anthropology and Sociology, but that's a relatively minor complaint and a more one off issue. my social science distribution ended up as such: 4/4 psychology 4/3 economics 2/2 ...

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TernarySky wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 4:25 am - depression TU: 5-HTTLPR is described as a gene but i believe it's a polymorphism within the SLC6A4 gene

this is simply correct. i'm sorry about that and hope it didn't lead to any negs.

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i feel like i'm doing something wrong; when i open yellowfruit on mac, everything works for manual entry, but i don't see any way to import qbj files under the yellowfruit menu. ( seen here .) i should mention i'm using a mac. other people in this thread have had success using yft on mac, so i ...

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josh is right that the fall semester doesn't present all that many good weekends for tournaments. the spring semester isn't much better, with spring breaks and, more importantly, various national tournaments. if the expectation is that most well-established teams play sct, acf regs, ict, and/or acf ...

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for me, the most important thing is that people host novice tournaments in the first place. if you're so worried about the eligibility thicket that you refrain from hosting a novice tournament at all, i think you (more accurately, we) have gone wrong. host novice tournaments, and host them early in ...

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Where would I be without Jim Nutter nipping at my toes? Here's the announcement.

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I am pleased to announce that the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of 2024 ACF Winter will be held at the University of Virginia in beautiful Charlottesville on Saturday, November 16, 2024. The tournament will take place at New Cabell Hall, pending room reservations. The opening meeting will begin at 8:20am ...

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We've hit the 24-team cap! Feel free to email me at the address above if you're intent on registering any further teams, but it looks like 24 is the number. We look forward to seeing you on the 28th.

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About how big is the Regs canon?? This is probably an estimated number of unique answerlines. the low four figures, perhaps? if one includes all the commonlinks & variations on the theme that writers use to, well, avoid frauding. it's not, in my opinon, realistic to simply memorize every answerline ...

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vasa, as is so often the case, is right. the best way to get through rounds fast is to eliminate chatter. i'll admit, though, that even among folks who ought to know better (i raise my hand), there can be a certain temptation to finish a round not just reasonably, but unreasonably quickly. it feels ...

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The organizers have taken down the forums announcement of the Georgetown Day mirror. Do you know what happened there?

Edit: Disregard.

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Georgetown Day School appears to have deleted their Fall Invitational previously scheduled for 9/14. I've removed that event from the calendar to avoid confusion, but retain the url here if you'd like to experience the broken link for yourself.

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The forums post for the Cavalier Classic has been posted here.

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This page will display an up-to-date rendering of the tournament's field.

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The Academic Competition Club at UVA, in collaboration with St. Anne's-Belfield School, will be hosting our annual fall tournament, the Cavalier Classic, on September 28th, 2024 using NAQT IS-231. The tournament director will be me, Joseph Chambers. We will not use computational math tossups nor ...

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I didn't advertise this change when I first made it, so here's a more prominent announcement: The University of Virginia will be hosting the 17th Cavalier Classic high school tournament on September 28th, 2024. More information is forthcoming.

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the virginia high school league (vhsl) runs "scholastic bowl" among public schools in the state. questions are, from what i can tell, provided by naqt. some schools participate in frequent scrimmages, while others (including mine) participated only in the annual state championship & associated ...

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Length of practice is irrelevant since a lot of studying is done outside of practice yeah, getting better at quizbowl isn't primarily done at practice. i still wouldn't call practices, their length, or their format "irrelevant." in most clubs, practices are one of the main things, if not the main ...

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This post was shamelessly and wholly plagiarized from the great Eric Chang. I'm not sure it needs to be made so early, but here we go. INSTRUCTIONS: To claim a date, please leave a comment with the which date you would like to claim along with the organization/school affiliated with the tournament ...

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in imitation of david bass, i've been known to get the blood pumping before the odd match with a few pushups. i also wear the same green pants to most tournaments, having once been complimented on them by jim fan.

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this is a necessary thread. i'm fully on board with joy's "option 3" being given more institutional backing. as john notes, this requires some consideration of club funding schemes, so i'll just lay out virginia's and follow where it leads. uva's quizbowl club, like other uva clubs, is eligible for ...

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a change is, yes, unlikely to come to the sort of competitions/scrimmages david is talking about. something tells me, however, that this preaching post is more about the odd choirboy who thinks it acceptable to host a tournament on, say, March 30, 2024, staffed and played by plenty of people quite ...

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I'd just find it surprising if kids today are watching old movies and not old tv shows this is absolutely the case. i'm not even going to talk about properly old tv, like the love boat and columbo , which are clearly watched far less than film from the same period. this discussion is just about ...

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the rankings from last weekend's uct are kinda fucked up. it seems that (half of) the teams who tied were moved to the bottom of the standings.

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First off, the format: while I commend Fred for hearing feedback and switching to a format that guaranteed more games, having paired prelim brackets and both a playoff and super-playoff re-bracket is a bit unideal. While this was almost certainly the best way to a run a tournament with 30 teams, it ...

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-"pulmonary surfactants" was a weird answerline made weirder by the straightforward description that they lower surface tension and are in the lungs. -"nizari" came too early in the "ishmael" tossup, in my opinion; i didn't want to buzz there, thinking it was bait, and sat on my buzzer for a bit ...

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i consider myself an enjoyer of memes and music. i, too, would like to see these questions.

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Wahoowah! The future of the UVA quizbowl team is looking bright. I'd like to thank Luke Schaarschuch for his cheerful rendering of driving duties, Em Gunter for having lots of buzzer sets, and every UVA competitor for subjecting themselves to a day that started at 0500 and ended at 2300. I'd like to ...

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So Saturday will consist of NASAT and Sunday will consist of ARCHIVE, ACRONYM, and Cheyne's baseball set, in some order? I don't mean to sound incredulous; I just wanted to clarify.

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The Mid-Atlantic circuit is a blessed place in which to play both high school and college quiz bowl, its rolling hills and professional-managerial offspring providing ample fodder for scenic drives and hearty competition. Giovanni Mazzeo is the only person I can imagine playing eight years of quiz ...

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This may be a coincidence, but I thought I'd note it here: Upon watching a recent episode of University Challenge (a UK-based, College Bowl Company-affiliated televised quiz show with a tossup-bonus format), I happened upon a bonus very similar to the spa town bonus from Regs. They shared two of ...

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Lol please take me off this list

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