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Brian Buzzfeed Hamilton Slack Stack will be reading a packet themed around episodes at 8:45 eastern tonight.

The Time Keeper · Re: DATE CHANGE: Terrapin Mirror at OSU: 12/4/16 Chris Ray done did it

Chris Ray done did it

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I only had four words to make a joke.

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As someone who had the misfortune to glance at a packet while keeping score last year, can we perchance have the opportunity to look at a different font that has been printed on paper? Because man, that font was hideous and the Jerry who picked it out should be ashamed of Jerryself. edit: ps i love ...

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Vissi d'arte wrote:I will do my best to write a packet of 10-20 questions on things that pissed me off in video games. There may or may not (read: will) be bonus points available for identifying which questions describe things that made me break a controller.

I'm already on board with this

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I think it's important not to have pizza stains on what should be one's freshly-washed, decent-smelling clothing, but beyond that, a person's demeanor and the way they interact with players/coaches/etc is vastly more important.

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kayli wrote: Boy you really missed the point.

Why don't you go ruin someone's funding about it.

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People are free to band together for this tournament whenever, of course, but I probably won't start getting field updates together for several months. Let's say we'll start accepting registrations when the clock rolls over to 2016. Feel free to continue posting in this thread to form teams and wha...

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Cheynem wrote:Team:

Me/Tejas Raje/Pat Freeburn/Brian McNamara

This team is going to do things.

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Are these practices open to the point where random idiots like me can stumble in and offer to read and hang out?

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Aside from potential PR or funding benefits, the polls are cool things that we do as a community that bring us together on these forums. Yeah, they're speculative and they often lead to spirited discussion about different philosophies of ranking skill, but in my book, that's the whole point! In my ...

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Black Miao wrote:I'd gladly play more of Cody Voight's glorious questions

Cody's clown packet all day. Seriously.

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Edit: Won't be at HSNCT, so frowny face.

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I may have missed this, but what time does Festivus usually start? Festivus is about as unofficial a thing as there can be, as it's really in the spirit of just hanging out and enjoying a mutual hobby, but I imagine people will be chatting about nonsense and getting ready to start if not quite read...

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To tag along with Joelle because I also don't know specifically where to inquire, I am offering my UNBELIEVABLE services as either moderator or scorekeeper.

Skills include: knowing what words are and how numbers work.

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Sun Devil Student wrote:
My impression has been that if it's even slightly uncomfortable, that is enough to drive away the vast majority of women unless they have some other reason to stay.

If it's even slightly uncomfortable then you have done something wrong.

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OK, Sorry about that. I did feel a little guilty when I posted that. I also feel that the Harvard QB folks have been beaten on enough. My Son told me this AM that he really wants to come back next year. The thing for him was how great the question set was. No problem! You should see some of the peo...

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I have written a packet about things that I can't put in ACRONYM, Minnesota's high school pop culture event. I'm going to attempt to read it in the IRC in about an hour (8pm Central), pending interest. I just read this thing for the first time and it's definitely in the top tier of novelty packets ...

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Can we expect to see stats today. I'd really want to see how State College stacked up against Bethlehem minus the round where they were read questions W/O Bethlehem there. See all the above posts for why that situation happened. The TD and various staffers in charge of stats have probably and right...

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I just want to say that the above post is probably the nicest way anyone has expressed grievances with an aspect of a tournament and that's something people should aim for.

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Be interested in quizbowl and don't have some sort of endocrine disorder that prevents you from exerting effort when you want to.

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The framing of things as rude and arrogant is problematic.

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However, since I never quite had the clout as a player to win the right to speak incredibly freely on these boards, I'm sure most high-up mods will just slap a ban on me as a hope of silencing, especially as many of said mods were behind the original slandering. It's my hope that they don't, but at...

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How do I defend the merits of quiz bowl against attacks? Today a student approached me during our school's club day and asked what quiz bowl was. I explained to him the basic structure and format of quiz bowl and showed him a quiz bowl packet. After I had done that he remarked that he "didn't need ...

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I need a teammate for this. I have semi-decent knowledge of everything from 16-bit and before, I'm okay at the generation after, and only really bad on modern stuff, with random deep pockets sparsely scattered everywhere. The main draw is that I'm awesome to be around. hay pat freeburn beard bros a...

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I need a teammate for this. I have semi-decent knowledge of everything from 16-bit and before, I'm okay at the generation after, and only really bad on modern stuff, with random deep pockets sparsely scattered everywhere. The main draw is that I'm awesome to be around.

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I should be there for Sunday (and Saturday night idiocy) and would play any trashy stuff and help staff the other things.

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Don't know if I'd call it my favorite packet ever, but I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of the hunter trash whatever that we're all talking about. It was cool.

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Ukonvasara wrote:I'm sure that "Rouge Squadron", despite their striking cheekbones and affinity for bats, would prefer to be "Rogue Squadron".

Can we be sure Kurtis and co. aren't just caked with makeup for this whole thing?

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I'd like to be involved in this in some way. Hopefully it'll be played at something I attend or playtested or whatever. What matters is that Squaresoft's Tom Saywer game gets the respect it is due.

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I think we should have Yaphe and Bollinger stand at opposite sides of a room and run head first towards each other and see if they fuse into some kind of superbeing.

The Time Keeper · Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14) Barbecue at my house, guys.

Barbecue at my house, guys.

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As long as it isn't Aerith.

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Fourth - I am not mad - if I were in your shoes I probably would have had the same thoughts - though I probably wouldn't have acted on them given my lack of knowledge of the person and my fear of confrontation. Sixth - Many of you want an apology, so I'm going to give you one here and now. I'm sorr...

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Ndg wrote:True story: he powered the tossup on Andy Watkins.

The poetry of this is just fucking beautiful.

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Sara Garnett and I will be coming to this as free agents, thought we don't necessarily have to be on the same team.

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The main appeal of the KMO is the opportunity to take it during class hours.

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I've concluded the best way I can make up the frankly unacceptable errors in the history set and poor experience many teams had playing this tournament, I'll be donating the money owed to me for editing and question writing to Matt's Buzzers. I haven't been told what the final fee will be yet, but ...

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Let me interject here to say that this incident (and the aftermath especially) is troubling for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that PACE and HSAPQ are having a very hard time communicating with each other, and are apparently at least close to (if not already) moving in differe...

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Chris Ray has the best stat line ever.

THIRTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

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Fantastic, this tournament just got a few minutes closer to me and there won't be any having to drive around and find parking in goddamn Ann Arbor. Looks like I'll be going to and playing horribly at this tournament.

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:It's just, like, it was the last tossup... completely unnecessary.

So is pretending you don't know something when you do and can earn extra points because of it.

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I have to be honest, I'm enjoying all the ctrl+v-ing I've been doing.

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I've been informed that another tournament may be using this set at the same time so I'll be doing some editing.

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Does anyone know how Owosso did today? I was hoping to watch them tomorrow while my parents are at the Spring football game. I see they most likely played DCC in their first game and based on what I've seen of DCC, I'm forced to assume they lost. Can anyone confirm/deny this? The good news is that ...

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Ukonvasara wrote:I should ban you all for empty-quoting.

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I always assumed that in his signature, "LPHS" was just a really improbable mistyping of "IMSA" since he has posted about IMSA a few times and posted once from an imsa.edu IP at like 3:30 in the afternoon. Other theories are that he's an LPHS student who just really likes IMSA quizbowl and sometimes...

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whitesoxfan wrote:
Edward Elric wrote: I will be more impressed if they can get out of their sectional alive when they play WWS and NC.
I believe this statement was the reason Dayo Dankole posted "impressed now?" when IMSA got out of their sectional.

That makes sense then. Must have glossed over that post.

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Having glanced at the stats from all the Dunbar mirrors, it looks like IMSA's bonus conversion was around that of teams who should be sneaking into the playoffs at HSNCT. From the sadly small sample size of real tournaments I have to work with right now, it seems like they can acquit themselves wel...

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