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I have to admit I was pretty mortified when I realised a nationals side event I was reading for a couple years ago that had alcohol present and a general adult-ish atmosphere had at least one team of high schoolers with a coach (I guess) in tow. They left early.

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Can we see the question text for the Nighthawks bar? I don't think it's actually been posted here.

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Sooooo, will this be an actual thing?

(I personally do not have time to organise anything)

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If you want a healthy dose of modern day sexism, just read the comments on the Periscope videos of the HSNCT finals. I am once again reminded of the old Protobowl thread, where the developer responded to complaints about racist trolls by basically going "oh, there's nothing I could possibly do abou...

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I don't know about the overall conversion data nor am I involved with the editing for HSNCT PC, but I have definitely seen multiple questions on "important" popular topics go dead/get zeroed, which is incredibly painful to watch. With pop culture it can be really difficult to gauge what counts as ea...

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Alright. Who is running it and when?

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A few people messaged me about playing the packet irl the night before the tournament--I would love for y'all to do that! Please message me again and I can send you the packet privately so you can play it :) !! Just to be clear-- is this IRL the night before the NSC, or the night before your online...

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Apropos of nothing, but I thought NAQT generally tried to avoid including questions on R-rated films like Get Out in high school tournaments. I don't think we have a formal policy on this, though perhaps we should. I would note, however, that of 1,472 players at the HSNCT, 1,027 were juniors or sen...

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I'll read.

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Will probably be useless, but I'd like to play this weekend.

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Yeah, I've written (or thought about writing) stuff, only to find very similar questions in old packets. Seen it with other writers, too.

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Speaking as a new transplant to this area, I agree with Jonah that Lou's is better (it's the crust).

Also, if you order online, please make sure you actually press submit (not calling anyone out here).

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I would be interested in going.

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The original post touched on some things I've noticed in my own editing assignments, and that's pretty much all I have to say.

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Good post. Personal class notes. These are especially pernicious because they give the illusion of accuracy and unambiguousness. Unfortunately, even at the graduate and professional level coursework is not thorough enough to justify relying on just class notes or even lecture slides. A good example ...

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I could not help myself and, after the question ended, straight up told my room that I didn't get why they didn't just ask for the gold foil experiment.

Also, count me as another reader who wasn't sure what to do with the answer "Nationalists" on that China tossup.

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I wasn't taking notes or anything, but the set was harder than what I was expecting. I'd also very much like to echo Bruce's comments regarding the rushed copyediting, though I did like the couple instances where readers were directed to read slowly for the players' benefit.

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I'd like to echo that NAQT's management is very accommodating to circumstances that might hinder one's question production or ability to staff. This naturally comes with a recommendation that workers communicate any issues that would cause that.

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Who are these people/groups funding ACE (and/or NHBB) who are saying that shorthanded teams make the event look bad, or are they hypothetical?

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Not serious The alternative just doesn’t look good. It’s definitely impressive, but it’s a reminder that our game is weak. Potential academic competitors (and those who fund the competitions) will take their cues on the “seriousness” of academic competition from its participants and organizers. Und...

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I am not going to lie, I have spent over a week compulsively checking the new posts page to see if this thread has updated with the explanations we've all been waiting for.

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Father Comstock wrote:Also some art pieces were displayed ahead of time in the powerpoint scrollbar on the left, so the question on identifying Klimt as the artist of The Kiss was a dead giveaway ahead of time if you had looked at the projector.

They didn't even put the powerpoint in presentation mode?!

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Same.

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EDIT: Forgot to mention that, besides the minimum of three on a team, there is also a maximum of five on a team for the History Bowl, with no subs permitted at any point in a match. Upon learning that, I went ahead and sent a kid home after our 2nd match (At least I didn't have to explain it to his...

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I think they mean it was easy to think the answer was "taking cover from a nuclear attack".

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I don't pay much attention to literature distros, but Narnia seems about as canonical as you can get for children's/YA.

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For the record, there is decent interest in elementary quiz bowl (primarily 5th/6th graders, I think) in Missouri, with a few tournaments each year. I agree that starting a kid in 2nd grade on "career" quizbowl is not a great idea, but I don't see any reason why a tournament or two a year for upper...

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You might want to reach out to some of the high schools in the area with quizbowl teams and see if any of their graduating seniors are coming to Mercer (or have matriculated there in the last few years). This could also be a good opportunity to feel out what might be a good date for a small-ish loc...

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In the fall, I will be starting a one-year medical laboratory science program on the North Shore of Chicago, and do not intend to return to Georgia. I look forward to witnessing Illinois high school quizbowl firsthand.

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Going off what Charlie said, I think it's more damaging when guys wear poorly-fitting business casual dress than it is when they wear any variety of non-business casual clothes, provided they aren't sloppy. Bibb County schools use "uniform" dress codes that, in my observation, often result in kids ...

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Ike wrote: My advice to them is to shower before the tournament because chances are they aren't even doing that.

Related: After a sweaty trip to Dallas (or, y'know, anywhere), make sure to air out your suitcase!

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This is the best thread ever. Some gender-neutral advice on shoes, though I'm told by many that most men's dress shoes are comfortable: test-drive your nicer shoes before wearing them to a tournament. You don't want the first time you've worn them all day to be at a tournament if they turn out to be...

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If there has to be an official timepiece for responses, it is easier to just watch the second hand on an analog clock face than it is to fiddle with a stopwatch.

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Indiana is definitely the boring part of the flight from Atlanta to Chicago.

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Here are mine: 1: alternation of generations/thallus/anther; NO/nitroglycerin/mitochondria 2: glucose/maltose/equatorial 8: thyroid/hypothalamus/calcitonin 10: stomata/abscisic acid/ethene 12: competition/Paramecium/Galapagos 13: folate/uracil/spina bifida 20: carotid/dura mater/anastomosis (this on...

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glucose/maltose/equatorial - Equatorial was pretty hard, and I'm not a huge fan of memorizing all the disaccharides Is it? Are there not high school organic chemistry courses where they learn about cyclohexane's chair conformation (asking seriously)? As for the other part, it was originally about s...

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I will be going to Mercer University, which entails a few things: 1. I likely will attempt to transfer to Georgia Tech, Emory, or Tufts as soon as possible. 2. I will try to help out on my home Georgia circuit as much as possible. I know that Mercer has some sort of team; they went to SCT at the ve...

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I'll take any opportunity to post my "humorous" account of a 2011

regional.

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Gibberish Nonsense wrote:I'm sorry, is there some epidemic of standing going on in quizbowl that I have neither seen nor heard of?

I've seen at least one team stand up in the middle of a match at the HSNCT, but I think it was some sort of lethargy-combating thing. I guess it's fine so long as they can't see the questions.

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At Sectionals 2013, Jarret's scorekeeper literally fell asleep with his head on his hand around 3 tossups into the game and didn't wake up until halftime. Fortunately, I had been keeping score, but don't rely on this! Back when I was at Tech, some people seemed to hate being assigned to keep score,...

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In honor of both Liberty and anime, there is a 1/1 Vic Mignogna distribution.

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As a person from Georgia, I liked the Sea Islands tossup, even though I would have said "Golden Isles" because I always get them mixed up.

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I also thought the Cobain question was neat. My questions: DI apoptosis/mitochondria/TUNEL Gioconda/Dance of the Hours/Suicidio polytene chromosome/Drosophila/abdomen roots/velamen/legume cicada/Hemiptera/cochineal DII Fungi TU apoptosis/mitochondria/p53 Gioconda/Dance of the Hours/Hugo polytene chr...

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You'd have to ask them (I think it was the WKU advisor?), but I think he was literally referring to Honda the sponsor, and not the College Bowl Company.

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HCASC results from preliminary round robin here . Has anybody ever tried to invite these teams to good quizbowl tournaments? It seems like they already have existing organizations, making it a lot easier to bring them into the fold. A few years ago, I had the bright idea to try and invite Georgia H...

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Matthew J wrote:
The United Stats of America wrote:
I wrote:
Joel Gluskin is not wearing a sports cap (500-1)
I didn't see him wearing a sports cap!
This was the biggest surprise of the tournament

I honestly didn't recognize him until he started talking.

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There are a bunch of math and physics things I wouldn't have heard of if not for the game Half-Life 2 and its soundtrack.

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Will we get an update as to exactly how "ridiculous and terrible" the event was?

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I'm kinda disappointed to find that Dave Madden's post wasn't a German tossup like I initially thought.

vinteuil wrote: Not only that, but I can imagine that restrictions on/rules about extracurriculars in Europe might get in the way.

What would those be?

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I'd also be interested in an HSNCT event.

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