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Howdy! I'll be hosting an open mirror of CO Trash at Valencia College's West Campus on Sunday, August 28, 2022. The registration fee is $60/team. As I'm aware that many folks will need to drive home for Monday morning work, we're likely to begin rounds at 9:30 a.m. and to have a pretty short (around...

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Howdy all! Valencia College will host mirrors of the IQBT NASAT set and Chicago Open Trash on Saturday, August 27, and Sunday, August 28. These are both open to any and all comers. Matches will be held at Valencia's West Campus in Building 9 (if you've ever played anything at Valencia, this is the u...

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"Who wrote the short story 'Paul's Case'?"

Dang, that IS convoluted!

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This is an interesting idea, John, but I have two questions: If it were created, would this tournament be run under the auspices of ACF or NAQT, or would it be an entirely separate enterprise? Would this tournament's existence obviate the UG title from ICT or ACF Nats? Would these teams still have t...

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Jordan, thank you so much for memorializing Darrell in this way. His death was a huge loss for the Florida CC circuit generally and for me personally. Darrell was my friend, fellow coach, and sometimes trash teammate since 2005. It's fantastic that you'd write a set about something so important to h...

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I prefer "whippersnapper," Mike, but thanks for the kind words, and thanks to those former Carper winners who thought I was worthy of joining their ranks. Congratulations to Matt, who is an impressive person to be recognized with. I know it's customary to say that one is "humbled"...

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This is an interesting thread, and I'm enjoying the discourse! I wanted to comment on the hypothetical Gordimer bonus and Paul's assertion that throwing the word "apartheid" into the last part when asking for her nationality dilutes the "literature-ness" of a literature bonus. Th...

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Thanks for the suggestions, all!

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That's helpful advice, Tracy, thanks! And it's very interesting y'all did it for an actual tournament. That's something we considered and decided against for our own Florida-only, state CC tournament this March, but considering the current Omicron surge, we may have to reconsider, as some schools ma...

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Has anyone tried running practices in person while also having some players participate on Zoom? At Valencia, considering we pull students from seven campuses around the Orlando metro area, it's tough for all players to make it to an on-campus practice. I tried a mixed practice once late in fall ter...

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Update: If you're in Group 4, Round 1 got started at around 10:35, so games will be pretty late till lunch, presumably.

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It's really getting to be time to know when this is going to start and, as Mike asked, if we need to do anything other than put our names on the spreadsheet to be registered. I'm going to be driving home three hours Sunday morning and definitely need to know what time I've got to be in front of my c...

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Here Chris, there's one next month.

Zoinks! Thank you, Henry, for actually flipping to the next page of announcements for me!

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I eagerly await an announcement about a stand-alone online version and hope a bunch of better players will let me join them for it.

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Will there be onsite options available for community college SCTs?

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I understand the player pool for community college quiz bowl is very different from high school and university pools, so when writing Delta Burke I often don't include a lot of alternate acceptable name answers, as the likelihood of any of our players giving one of those is so low that the time cost...

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I can read for this if needed, but I don't have a laptop so probably can't do online scoresheets if those are being used (or need tutorial).

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I'll be traveling solo to CO for the first time in my now-20 visits. I've got a book, but if anyone wants to meet up for a beer and some packet reading or chatter about Florida House Bill 233 , I'll be at Smylie Brothers Brewing in Evanston around 6-6:30 p.m. FRIDAY for a couple hours (at least!). E...

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I know Noah and the team are working through some bugs to get the final results for LIBERACE out, but there's no reason to wait to say that this was FANTASTIC. As was true for PAVEMENT and MARCATO, the QBLITZ interface and functionality is just great, but for me personally I enjoyed this audio tourn...

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Thanks to Arjun and all his staff for running a competition on the 2020 Delta Burke set. I hope everyone enjoyed the questions. Perhaps not surprisingly, it looks like the HS players in this tournament scored better than both the teams at my CC iteration and the novice university teams in the Ohio S...

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Thanks to Sam and all his staff for running a competition on the 2020 Delta Burke set. I hope everyone enjoyed the questions. I've requested a private discussion forum, and when that exists I'll announce it here. In the meantime, if you have anything you're itching to share about the set or any spec...

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Maybe a little too much science, but sounds like fun!

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I'm authorizing Ohio State to invite teams from anywhere who want to play the Delta Burke set in a novice tournament. I figure that anyone who really wanted to host a mirror would've done so by now. But do let me know if that's not correct.

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Hi, Jade!

My Valencia team could use some tough scrimmages to get ready for the CCCT on February 27. I e-mailed with some ideas about when and how. Cheers!

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Add me to the list of folks who are very interested in playing this (and paying for it!) if another mirror is added.

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Howdy! So I kind of just never got around to making a Delta Burke 2020 announcement here in fall of 2020, but we wrote it and used it for our usual Florida CC tournament. I've got nine rounds of primo collegiate novice questions, with really only very small amounts of Republican bashing and scatolog...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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My second point is that requirements to keep one hand visible are difficult to enforce and annoying for players to abide by. I'm not sure that enforcing a rule that players have to have one hand visible is any harder to enforce than the tech set ups being described above. I'm obviously not going to...

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Huh, FWIW I used Firefox and everything worked fine.

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These questions were excellent, and I really enjoyed playing this tournament. Thanks to Erik and the writing team and to the very good readers we had today!

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I tried looking through this thread to see if there were any instructions for resetting a password. I have my username, but have forgotten my password, and if I try to re-register, I'm told my e-mail address is in use, so I'm out of luck. Any ideas? EDIT: So of course I just re-registered using a du...

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If this happens on the Sunday, I'll be happy to flail about on a team.

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I've got enough science writers now, so I'm no longer seeking. However, if you're still interested, I'll likely need to hire out for some science questions for the Florida College System Activities Association Regional and State tournaments scheduled (tentatively) for early February and late March, ...

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I'm pleased to say that I've already gotten commitments for all of the biology, and about 15+/25 of the chemistry, physics, and other. If you're reading this and would like to write around 10/7, please contact me at the e-mail address listed in the above post.

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Howdy! So I'm looking for some young writers looking to make a name for themselves on these tough quiz bowl streets (or more experienced writers who are bored and/or who want to make some dough) by writing some novice-level science questions. I'm planning to scale back Delta Burke to just ten rounds...

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I wanna see you kids try to buzz in on this toss-up opener presented in a question in the third link above:

"Class Mammalia consists of nineteen separate orders."

I remember those days.

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Huh, I went to look up that question, Arthur, smug in my certitude that I would've included no such prompt, but obviously you're right! The question instruction directs the mod to prompt on "Australia" till "Dutch settlers" are mentioned, which indeed seems overly (and bizarrely)...

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At Valencia practices, I almost always have "steals" as bonus parts in effect, as it's a good way to ensure players stay engaged and learn stuff when the other team is answering a bonus. Or sometimes, if one team is significantly better, I only allow the weaker team to steal. It doesn't ta...

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Hey, I know some of you from the June 6 (2020) HS mirror have been added to this forum, and I hope you'll feel free to offer any thoughts on the questions. I'd love to know how the questions worked (or didn't!) for HS players. As always, I'm open to both constructive and destructive criticism.

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There will be 1 question per packet in the category of "Southern, rural, or blue-collar interest"

Hmm, I guess I get the first two modifiers there, but what exactly is culture of "blue-collar interest"?

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I don't imagine this post will be popular, but for fully online tournaments are lunch/dinner breaks really necessary? I've played in four full-day tournaments now, and all of them had a 45 minute or hour lunch break, which seems unnecessary when one is probably just going to the fridge and making a ...

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This tournament ran very well, and the moderators my team heard were all very good, even Aayush. I'm glad it ran without bonuses. Thanks to all the writers and staffers!

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Yeah, I'll adamantly second Conor's post above. I've only played three Discord tournaments, but the first two included bonuses and had rounds that ranged from 40 minutes (with a fast, clear reader) to nearly an hour. That means lots of waiting after you're in a fast round or rushing to play if you'r...

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This has been an interesting discussion. I wonder if a possible palliative to the concerns about graduate students beating on UG players (regardless of whether one thinks this is really an issue or not) would be for NAQT to cap the number of years one can play ICT. For instance, a cap of five or six...

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I think that's a good plan, Mike. I'd rather find a space for those interested in the film questions and just read to all rather than worrying about teams and a schedule. I'll be with my own Valencia team seeing Chicago sights during the day, so maybe starting around 9 pm or something would be good....

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They probably have science players, Kai.

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SU(3) being associated with QCD is relatively well known, even by non-science players.

No.

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I'll play, but only because you included a pronunciation guide for FLopen.

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Ah, I hope that's right, Chandler! It'll also be fun to play more teams and avoid a triple RR. See you there!

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Aaargh, bring them kids for a third team! Byes, sigh.

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