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The second, far less well known buzzer I want to discuss is something that the MIT team had in its possession circa 2008-2009, and brought to at least a few tournaments. This was a homemade system, I think, and the notable thing about it is that the noise it made when somebody buzzed in was a "ding...

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We played this once when it was mirrored in the Boston area in 2007. I liked the format a lot at the time. It was a way for weaker players on the team (like myself at the time) to get to play meaningful matches against other players without being crowded out by better team members. The downside was...

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Chris, don't forget that Andrew Hart spread this story to a non-quizbowl audience : Another—who was so obsessed with appearing to be well-read that he once claimed to be “in the middle of” reading noted 50-line poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”—was approached by a group of players who asked him if he’d re...

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For DC-area people, one option still selling tickets that could get people there in time to play (most of) the main event is United flight 635 out of BWI leaving at 7:02 AM and arriving at 8:04 AM at O'Hare. Tickets are currently $160.20 (one way).

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I've relocated to White Plains, NY, so I may be available to staff or play the occasional NYC-metro event, depending on childcare obligations.

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I was Brandeis's club president from 2006-2008 and would be happy to answer by email or PM if you have any questions. Like Matt, I'm not located in the northeast anymore, but I may have some useful knowledge, so feel free to reach out.

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Zeke did go to HS in Maryland, according to what he said last week.

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hokieDoubleE wrote:Are both Ottawa Hybrid Tournament and OhioTRASH2014 high school level?

OHT is a college-level tournament.

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I was recently going through the files of my old laptop from undergrad and was able to salvage some old stats, which I have uploaded to the database. The stats include: Brown EFT 2 (2007) ACF Regionals Northeast 2007 Deep Bench 2007, Brandeis Mirror TRASH Regionals Northeast 2007 I also have D1 and ...

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I have to stick around and wait for Jerry, so I will play this. Jonathan Magin has tentatively agreed to play with me.

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I'll be available for playtesting, too.

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I'd play, but May 18/19 is impossible for me. I could only do the early part of the day on June 1 and the late part of the day on June 2. Later in June (other than NSC weekend) would also work for me.

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Alan Siegel's new Slate piece on the Watkins stuff is out.

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Jason from DCC, of todd feenising fame, always made some classy threads. I tried to talk him into coming back and making another one for kicks in 2008 or so but he declined.

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Anyway, it seems like this method can catch cheaters, but it doesn't really want to say that Andy Watkins cheated. You compared the 2009 stats to 2010, but Watkins allegedly also cheated in 2009 (even though his stats were less impressive). His D2 stats from 2008 are the baseline without any allege...

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The story was mentioned on NPR's Weekend Edition this morning. I don't have a link yet, but I'll try to find one. EDIT: my father told me it was mentioned; he may have thought a reference to the test scandal from last year was a reference to this. I'll check to make sure, but it seems he was mistaken.

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I'm playing solo from Georgetown. If my other possible rides fall through, we can look into splitting the cost of me renting a car.

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I don't know that he's read at any tournaments in the last five years, but Steve Watchorn was a great reader.

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Perhaps I have a unique take on this (I have written a legal document to keep a Mexican immigrant's children in this country based on a provision of VAWA). It's one of those things where, if you're familiar with the law, Morrison is probably the most famous thing about VAWA. So when I heard that cl...

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Although I'm fairly sure I've heard of at least one instance of a band doing so, since the album was required by their contract but they didn't feel like doing a good job on it. I forget who it was though. Van Morrison came in with a detuned guitar while slightly intoxicated to record enough songs ...

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Edward Elric wrote:I know i've asked this before in another thread but if someone knows Delano Barnes' email address and if they could email or PM it to me that would be great.

Sent you an email.

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I came to this tournament under the impression that it was going to be regular difficulty or thereabouts. It was definitely harder than that; I'd probably put it considerably closer to (or roughly equal to, in years not edited by Jerry) Nats than to Regionals. My chief complaint about the content wo...

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My team once lost a game in high school because the moderator thought that "biochemistry" should be acceptable for "organic chemistry" since those are "totally the same thing."

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What time in the morning would the tournament start on Saturday? Also, to those from Maryland, how long would the taxi right from Dulles to the tournament take on a Saturday Morning (8amish)? Dulles to College Park would be a very, very expensive cab ride. Think $80. It'd take close to an hour. I'd...

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I'm a free agent for this right now and I intend to play.

EDIT: Looks like I'm joining Jerry.

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I would probably attend this were it not in the middle of finals.

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I think Carsten is underestimating Casey Retterer's trash ability. I'd put that Magin/Rogers/Hart/Retterer team in the top tier.

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I would be wary of suggesting that teams eat dinner in the food court. Most of the places in the Crystal City Shops are only open 9-5 Monday through Friday, including restaurants. A few will be open.

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I should be available for this. I'm a free agent right now.

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Edward Elric wrote:Does anyone have any email address or a way to contact Delano Barnes (since I believe he doesn't frequent the boards)?

Sent you an email.

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The problem with the tossup on relegation is that it was possible to buzz in and get it right before any clue whatsoever had been given, since it began "This method of entering the Football League..." and there is only one method of entering the Football League that one would ever write a tossup on...

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Isn't "the appearance of three stars" the definition of "sundown" for Jewish religious purposes? Jonah's right on this one. A sundown-to-sundown holiday or fast starts a bit before the first sundown and ends when three stars are visible after the second sundown (or 18 minutes after sundown if the w...

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stuff I should clarify what I mean. I don't object to things from before a player's lifetime, and I don't think I said that anything from before a player's birth is irrelevant. I think that there were irrelevant or not-so-relevant things asked about from before the players' lifetimes, and those sub...

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One question on theoretical math: what was the acceptability of "toroid" for the torus tossup? Jonah can probably answer this one better because he has the question text, but "toroid" definitely should not have been acceptable as it includes annular shapes made by rotating things other than circles...

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I also edited most (all?) of the pop culture music question This was beyond your control, presumably, and under the control of the compiling software, but it was unfortunate for the two pop music questions in one finals packet to be the Rolling Stones and a bonus on Marvin Gaye. Both are fine, but ...

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Reading the prelims and first few playoff rounds and observing the remainder, I can say the following: This tournament was very well-organized. Joel did a fantastic job with the logistics and everything was great except for the elevator/stair situation, which was beyond NAQT's control. Although I ap...

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Speaking of It's Academic... check this story out . To believe in “It’s Academic” is to believe in good things, in solid things like right answers, certainty, sportsmanship and loyalty. Special appearances by Chris Manners and Raynell Cooper. You can email the reporter via this form to express your...

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I mean, is CO rather packed as it is? As far as I know there's one tournament (CO) happening the entire weekend at this point. It sounds like there's certainly space for this event. And it's been a while since we've had a solid doubles tournament, so I absolutely support adding this to the weekend'...

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:2011 Fall Novice will happen, will be awesome*, will be available for mirrors for free.

*not legally binding

Even without the asterisk, your statement isn't legally binding.

Note: the above is not legal advice.

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I thought the RMP skewed very Christian. I don't think I heard a single Islam or Judaism question in the 11 rounds I heard. Again, this is symptomatic of the larger problem of Ike's favorite areas being overrepresented.

Pretty much everything else I might say has already been offered above.

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Avram wrote:Can I assume that international staff travel will not be covered by NAQT?

If you can fly round trip from Kazan to Chicago for NAQT's limit of $275 or less, you win the Charles Meigs Travel Award and, presumably, the right to staff ICT.

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This tournament will be held in Barus and Holley. Unlike the usual Brown tournament location (Wilson Hall), which is located on the main green, Barus and Holley is located a few blocks from the main green, at the intersection of Hope and George streets. There is, in fact, a parking lot located in f...

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The instruction I've always given people for reading NAQT is to go "as fast as you can without sacrificing any clarity ." More importantly, I like to emphasize ways to minimize wasted time between questions (such as separating tossups from bonuses to eliminate flipping pages back and forth all the t...

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If you write this I'll play in it, but I'll probably be pretty bad considering most of my architecture knowledge is quizbowl-canonical. Though Calatrava is not tossed-up nearly as much as he should be. You must have missed that time when Rob Carson got a hard-on for him two years ago and he came up...

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Thanks very much to Evan for letting us use the set and especially to Dakkas for helping Edmund et al with the Briticization -- er, Briticisation -- of the set. How did this work? Was this a matter of changing "color charge" to "colour charge" and the like, or did the clues/questions change? Some A...

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stuff about math being easy Don't fall for the Freshman Fallacy. I don't know what your Algebra II and Precalculus classes were like in high school, but mine didn't talk about Gauss-Jordan elimination; the first time I was taught about it was in linear algebra. Complaining about the Weierstrass fun...

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:Do I get like a penny each time the "beardo" line is used memetically?

Not for you, hot-tubbo.

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I have no plans to show up to this event.

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Reinstein, "ALL OF YOU GOT YOUR TODDS FEENISED" and "woned in teh fase" are from the same post, so the argument could be made that they're the same meme.

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In past years, CO trash has ended between 4 and 5. Maybe 5:30 at the latest.

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