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I am glad that this is happening in time for my temporary crawl out of retirement.

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Kouign Amann wrote:If anyone is looking to fill a spot in a hotel room for Saturday night, let me know, and I'll gladly pay my share.

Same here.

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Fair enough. And I still don't know if the word "mosaic" was part of the required answer line. In any case, you knew it first! Yea, I'd only ever heard it called the Alexander Mosaic before-maybe this is one of those " what people put down in the captions" versus "what it g...

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If TDs had to resolve every protest that gets lodged irrespective of whether it'd affect the outcome of a game, and players knew this to be true, control rooms would be utterly swamped with frivolous and score-padding protests, and would have to waste a lot of effort looking into all kinds of issue...

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(or a weekend in which lots of various tournaments are played). I still like my idea of a sort of "three-appetizer plate" of various side events, although this would obviously only work if the subjects were well-balanced. Another possibility would be to anchor the weekend with a shorter e...

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Split from the 2015 CO thread --Mgmt. We should at some point have a thread about Judaism questions - perhaps this post which in no way related to CO will cause the admins to create one via thread split. As a frequent Religion editor/writer back in the day, I found Judaism questions extremely chall...

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Grammatical clarity aside, though, I was really impressed by this submission: it was actually a good high-level question on a Jewish holiday. Rather than just spitting out names of songs for leadins like run-of-the-mill Jewish holiday tossups, this one tested knowledge of liturgical customs, so it'...

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I suspect that from a representation standpoint, we might actually do better by focusing on queer representation within the quizbowl community. As I grew up, I remember being struck by 1: Just how many quizbowl players, and especially good quizbowl players were queer (in fact, it seems like we're d...

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First, I don't think micropolitics has a role in quizbowl, insofar as quizbowl is accurately representing academic study of academic topics as they exist in the current academic world. (If quizbowl isn't being true to how much academic treatment certain topics receive, then that's something to be f...

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The buzz was not optimal because it came before a concrete, uniquely identifying clue. The question was not optimal because it encouraged buzzing before a concrete, uniquely identifying clue. Ideally, questions would be better and this situation would not occur. But in this particular instance, the...

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I actually completely disagree with Will. The difference may by "only five years", but those are an important five years. It is because those five years are important that we must be especially careful in how we treat each other across gaps. I find that a lot of problems develop when high...

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For high school, a good textbook should honestly cover most of your starting bases-Gardner's Art through the Ages or Janson's History of Art are both pretty standard. If you want more detailed studies of specific topics, the Pelican History of Art* or Oxford History of Art series is probably going t...

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So this question might have an obvious answer, but where do books like "The Columbian Exchange" by Alfred Crosby or books like "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" fit in the distribution. I am just wondering because I just finished reading the latter and thought both due to the mate...

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So I've thought about this a little bit, and I have brainstormed some potential solutions, some or none of which may be useful: To the issue of "too many announced housewrites, too few played housewrites": having PACE set up a national "Independent Series" distribution network b...

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Also-learn your way around a new city/campus/whatever really well the first time or two you go; if you play college quizbowl you'll probably wind up going to tournaments in the same places a bunch of times so once you know your way around Wherever U. and its environs fairly well said knowledge stays...

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Out of honest curiosity, why wouldn't the logical outcome of this just be something like a quizbowl gemach? At least if the intent is to not have quizbowl money effectively flowing at the rate of the slowest team to pay registration or mirror fees(or perhaps the slowest school reimbursement office).

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So I've both played at a variety of tournaments, and moderated a couple, and have come across the same issue multiple times: a lack of accurate timing for answering tossups and bonuses. As far as I am aware, no tournament format (excluding Academic League) requires a clock to be used to determine t...

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UPDATE: If there is interest, I will figure out how to host a mirror of VICO in DC on August 15th, 22nd, or 29th. It would have to have a field cap of like eight teams, unless one of the UMD players can get us rooms there or something. Please post here if you would be interested in that. If this so...

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One worthwhile piece of information which might help folks here answer this question, if you're willing to share, is where your high school is located -- there are many people on these boards who are active in organizing local, regional, and state circuits, and knowing which specific existing tourn...

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"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...

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"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...

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For most Canadians (or at least for Ontario, where most Canadian quizbowlers are from), anything before the First World War is consigned to middle school classes taken nearly a decade before their collegiate careers. Unless someone went out of their way to learn more about topics like Louis Riel, J...

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So does someone actually have a good introductory book to Canadian history that is not A) awful whig history, B) duller than cottage cheese, or C) by Desmond Morton(which I have tried to read only to find it painfully, painfully boring)?

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I fail to see why "plebian secession" (a specific historical term with a well-defined meaning that seems to routinely come up in books on Roman history) is a confusing or ambiguous answer.

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I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...

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I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...

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Also, the arbitrariness of this bolding is hilarious. "The Anxiety of Influence" is "noticeably difficult", but "pataphysics" isn't? Ditto for, e.g., "My Kinsman Major Molineux" v. "Elizabeth Loftus"--I literally cannot imagine a reasoned basis on w...

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Zero in linguistics: I indeed misheard this clue, sorry! [Sidebar: I'm sure this is a real thing in linguistics, but I learned the "to be" construction as "noun sentence"; I'm not sure anyone learning the language would learn this name for it—and I'm sure that's not a valid crit...

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Currently a free agent seeking a team barring unforseen circumstances.

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(Note: for NAQT questions, please don't bother listing the 50 names of Marduk.) -Seth You do realize it is now my mission to write a question that finds a way to require listing the 50 names of Marduk, right? :P There was a question in CO 2013 on "Names of Marduk", which is probably the c...

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Walt Whitman . Given that Shantanu and his teammates won NSC and the team was active regionally and went to at least one national fairly consistently and perfromed at least somewhat well from 2006-12(I was on the team for a considerable part of these years), they certainly have a pretty extensive q...

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Given that it is reasonable to assume that most students at Harvard own computers Reasonable. and that at least a few tournament attendees probably had brought laptops with them, wouldn't it have made more sense to see if someone could loan her a laptop for the duration of the tournament Not so muc...

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I wasn't at this tournament and can't comment on the circumstances that resulted in a random parent reading in a room and repeatedly reading the wrong packet, but I am amazed that Harvard thought, in 2014, that it was a good idea to just give staffers all the packets and trust them to do the right ...

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Becoming hyperfocused on minute PPB differences is just plain silly; 23.5 to 21.5 is...not quite "random fluctuation" but certainly a small enough change that it doesn't really tell you a lot about how hard a set was that just looking over the set and noting "This seems really hard an...

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Another is that they often get someone like a local professor in to make a big address or talk about a current issue, which is often very variable in quality, but can be a really cool experience. I don't know how quizbowl might do this, but it could be neat to have a tournament offer some kind of m...

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Another is that they often get someone like a local professor in to make a big address or talk about a current issue, which is often very variable in quality, but can be a really cool experience. I don't know how quizbowl might do this, but it could be neat to have a tournament offer some kind of m...

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working against the problem that Ike outlines might be why Ted's painting questions at nationals were so well-received this year.. Discounting the ones that were just super-hard... The big potential space to open up is actual academic work about art; just as history and literature questions have ha...

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I I'd also like to raise a suggestion for visual art questions. I think it would add a layer of depth (that vis-art in quizbowl seems to lack currently) if we shift toward "art history" rather than just "art." This shift means doing the things Ike supports (more context clues, e...

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I would imagine the "mysterious "planning" that Matt is referring to teams actually meeting and finding a few new people who might be interested. I think this was more in reference to the common advice that new teams should be doing things like figuring out room booking, getting offi...

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Yes- as others have mentioned- (for example) all of the University of California schools (except for Berkeley) are on the Quarter system and start in late September (same with non-UC schools such as Stanford and CalTech). I would imagine the "mysterious "planning" that Matt is referr...

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In the interest of not risking bad schedule overruns, that might be a good idea.

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Mewto55555 wrote:Me: I guess my friends must just be smarter than yours, then.
JL: No, that's not possible.

I do not know whose friends I need to meet more now.

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An interesting variation might be to include a very small methodologies distribution alongside the historiography distribution about "how people do history"; this could cover things like archival research practices, research practices in specific fields, archaeological practice, specific ...

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In particular, the presence of actual historians and things you read in history class, as Matt brought up, was great. In fact I would've preferred more of that; it seems bizarre to me that a CO history tournament wouldn't have a distribution devoted exclusively to historiography. Not all answers in...

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This set was excellent and I'd say it and CHB are good examples of how tournaments with very different writing philosophies can succeed. The ancient/late antique/early medieval history in particular did a very good job of avoiding battle-bowl and fashionable topics in favor of interesting, substanti...

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I can send a few meta/vanity questions to be read even if I am not present at this(which i do not currently expect to be).

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If the field is still open, I'm happy to play this.

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Is there any opinions on Europe: A History by Norman Davies? Also, does The Golden Bough have any external quizbowl purposes besides tossups about it? My dim memory of attempting to read The Golden Bough is that there's nothing in it that you couldn't find in more recent and more worthwhile works o...

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A poem by William Meredith is titled “In Loving Memory of” the author of this collection. One work in this collection talks of a woman with “complexion Latin” who is “filling her compact & delicious body with chicken paprika”. Another poem in this collection begins by stating that “Life, friend...

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I'll play this if i am at CO in 2015.

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