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Was this the first time that non-magnet public schools won HSNCT in back-to-back years?
EDIT: This post had accidentally submitted before I congratulated Beavercreek on their win. That final game was so awesome. Great job, everyone.

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I took my name off the spreadsheet since I feel too exhausted to do anything this evening. Have lots of fun, everyone.

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Thank you for hosting yesterday. I had a lot of fun.

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Valefor wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 10:43 am If you are putting free agents together, I am happy to join Jonathan in defending our CO Trash Online 2016 title. :)

I'd like this, too.

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I'm not sure why my name got deleted from the list of free agents, but I put it back on there. Where do I send the money to?

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If anyone would like someone who has some fairly deep knowledge in sports, and knows a few things about movies and TV from ~1998-2007, I'd like to be on your team.

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How soon will a decision be likely to be made?

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I'd like to play this, and I guess I would classify myself as more of a statisics/applied math guy, so if there are any free agents that are more into pure math, I think we'd function well together.

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I'm planning on playing this weekend regardless of how it's structured.

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This was really fun. Thanks for doing all of this. How soon will the packets be released/able to be discussed?

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Jonathan, I've gone ahead and moved you onto the team with Ramapriya and myself; please let me know if you'd like me to undo that. It looks like right now that, counting the free agents, there are enough people on the sheet that this will hopefully run. :) That sounds good. I look forward to Sunday.

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I am a free agent so far, although I'd be willing to join Jason and Ramapriya's team if they want me. I've made lots of early buzzes on big 4 sports/golf/tennis/Olympics sports tossups in past trash tournaments, although I don't know as much about boxing/WWE/MMA as a lot of other trash players. I us...

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Now that I've heard about this tournament, I'm interested in playing this, hopefully with teammates, but I likely won't be available until round 2 given that I have to drive people around that morning until ~9:45 AM EDT.

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Just in case anyone was wondering, this tournament didn't happen due to a whole bunch of last minute cancellations.

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This was a well-run tournament that was very enjoyable. Thank you.

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Was it just me, or when I was hearing the questions while keeping score, were there a lot more references to

then there has been in any tournament for the past few years?

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a panhandler wearing a Wright State hat approaches the Wright State team and has no idea where Wright State is (1:1)

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I only played one packet from this set back in the fall, and what I remember is that the bonuses were ridiculously hard, or at least were missing key words that would've made some of the things easier. When you have a room full of people who are good at trash not having heard of many of the hard par...

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Is the set going to be posted now that the last mirror is over?

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The following ACF Fall mirror doesn't appear to be in your database: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2335/

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In that vein, Kellianne's last name is Rinearson.

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Is the reason that Kenyon is highlighted as opposed to MSU A just a mistake on the NAQT website?

Anyway, regardless of how we did, our team had a lot of fun and enjoyed the set. Thank you both to the writers of the set and the staff of Saturday's tournament for making it so enjoyable.

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I was just curious if the "hands up, don't shoot" tossup had the same text in DI and DII, or if they were slightly different.

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I buzzed in after the question was entirely read because the other team had negged it, I think, but I basically spent the whole tossup thinking, "There has to be something more to this than just solving an ordinary differential equation." I'm not saying it's a bad thing to toss up, I guess I was try...

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I actually thought that the footballers bonus was fine. A typical field of people wanting to play British questions in America would want to hear that bonus. Jordan Palmer would've 30d it, and the moderator in our room seemed to think we were awful for only getting 10 on the bonus, but our team's so...

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The tossup on solving ODEs made it clear it wasn't integration or differentiation, and that led me away from the actual answer line. This was one of mine. I was interested to hear how it played. Do you think the idea for the answer line was unsound? The dominant practical methods (especially numeri...

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Did Aayush or anyone else who happened to be at both today's and last week's tournaments think that the editing improved over the week? Not significantly, no. But then I don't know how much of the bad editing (grammar-wise) I was already shielded from by moderator improvisation at the CMU site. The...

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Could I please see the "Permian" tossup? I was just wondering if the first clue was misplaced as it seemed to lead to buzzer races at a tournament site over 1000 miles away from the Permian Basin.

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Did Aayush or anyone else who happened to be at both today's and last week's tournaments think that the editing improved over the week?

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What category was the Permian tossup supposed to be in. I was surprised that something as famous as the Permian Basin was alluded to in the leadin.

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So outside of the tossup on Manny Ramirez, which I assume replaced a cricket tossup, were any other tossups or bonuses replaced?

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EDIT: I had been distracted from making this post, which was started before Andrew's post came through, and this mainly reiterates some of his points. Sorry for the repetitiveness. In the future, having mirror sites occur two weeks before the main tournament is probably not the best idea. It seemed ...

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Ndg wrote:For what it's worth: Based on my experience this past weekend, I would discourage people from using the Oxford Open set, in its current state, for tryouts.

In this vein, has there been an Oxford Open discussion group set up yet?

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If there's not enough interest on this day, I (and possibly other Wright State people) would be willing to come to this site on a later date.

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What about Joelle Smart?

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I'm pretty sure that there was a bonus part that was looking for the official name for mu_0 and gave the official name for epsilon_0 instead.

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But !!!!!! your criticism of the question set bothers me a lot. Harvard advertised the breakdown of questions. It was pretty clear that there was not going to be all the trash typically contained in a NAQT set. My son who loves QB but dislikes all the baseball, rap musician, and TV show trivia ques...

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sephirothrr wrote:Out of curiosity, is this a thing that actually happened?

OSU played us on one of the packets, and I'm assuming that the rest will be used at a later tournament.

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Northmont beat Michigan State A in the second game of a final where Northmont had had the advantage going into the final.

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Is there a reason that the 161st team was not included in that post?

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Will there be anything in the fall other than ACF Fall that will require packet submission?

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OHIO: Jarrett Greene (South Range), Ike Jose (Stow Munroe Falls), Saajid Moyen (Copley), Ashvin Srivatsa (Sycamore). Certainly many others you could add here as well--I would say, this is a fairly deep team that with the exception of Ike, lacks a MVP. Joe is right, Noah Rahman should definitely be ...

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theMoMA wrote:Maybe hold off on posting to Wastebin before HSNCT.

Just to be clear, I was asking about putting the tournament they wrote last year on Wastebin, not this tournament, so that people who don't know the writers could see examples of their previous work.

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Is there any plan to put your previous tournament on Wastebin?

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I can recall from playing CBI that Dan Fuller from that "3 Boys and a Goy" team mentioned earlier loves to talk about college bowl and protoquizbowl from that time period, so if anyone happens to be going by the Kent State branch campus in New Philadelphia, OH, he might be someone to interview.

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The NAQT style guide mandates staunch "quiz bowl" partisanship. Most newer circuit folks go with "quizbowl." Hopefully we can all come together with peace, love, and a mutual understanding that "quiz-bowl" is just dumb, and that hyphens should be reserved almost entirely for compound adjectives tha...

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If you have a car on campus, you can practice with us in Fairborn on Fridays at 6PM on the fourth floor of Millett Hall.
EDIT: I don't remember the exact room number, but if you come out of the elevator and turn right, it will be the first door on your left.

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In addition to going to MUT, the Ohio quizbowl community usually tries to gather together every summer to play some below open difficulty tournament somewhere in the Columbus or Cleveland area. Also, if you want to scrimmage us in Fairborn, I think that Emily would be okay with that. It seems that a...

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Was it just me, or did there seem to be a whole lot less world literature than there's been at various tournaments I've volunteered at in recent years? It seemed like there was less than there is even in an IS-A set.

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