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I'd hope for it to be played in person, if possible (perhaps in the fall), but of course we'll see how things go - I imagine we'll run an online mirror either way.

women, fire and dangerous things

I'm happy to announce that the fifth iteration of Scattergories will be available for mirrors starting in summer 2021. I'll be joined again by the esteemed JinAh Kim, and this time we'll also be joined by the equally esteemed Mike Bentley. As usual, it will be a very difficult, whimsical vanity tour...

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This set has now been posted to the archives.

women, fire and dangerous things

I'll read the last two packets tonight at 8:30 Eastern.

women, fire and dangerous things

I'll do two more packets tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:30 Eastern.

women, fire and dangerous things

I read the first three packets tonight, and I'll do some more tomorrow, Tuesday, at 8:30 Eastern (not 8:00 this time).

women, fire and dangerous things

Reminder that this is happening tonight at 8:00 Eastern!

women, fire and dangerous things

Before posting the Scattergories 4 packets on the archive, I'll do some casual readings of the packets on Discord. I'll start on Monday at 8:00 Eastern, probably doing the first two packets then.

women, fire and dangerous things

I'd be happy to run some Discord shootouts (a couple packets a night, perhaps) at no cost.

women, fire and dangerous things

I don't plan to run another full-blown mirror of this - if anyone does want to run something using this set, let me know in the next couple of days so I can hold off on uploading it to the archives.

women, fire and dangerous things

Final stats are at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6546/ (thanks to Joe Su for running stats!). Team "Mott scattergories" (John Lawrence, Mike Bentley, Rob Carson, and Halle Friedman) won in overtime in a tight final against team "Mie scattergories" (Shan Kothari, Alston Bo...

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One of our staffers had to drop last-minute; if anyone else is willing to help staff, please let me know!

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A logistics email has been sent out to a representative from each of the teams. The field is now full at 20 teams, but there still are a small number of open slots for players.

women, fire and dangerous things

20 will be the final field cap - with 20 teams, we can do a round robin with two brackets of 10, followed by a one-game crossover final. The tournament's in a little under two weeks, so it would be helpful if free agents could assemble themelves into teams soon so I can make sure we do indeed get to...

women, fire and dangerous things

women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:24 pm The field has now been expanded to 18 teams - thanks to those who have volunteered to staff!

There are now 18 teams signed up, but I've expanded the field to 20.

women, fire and dangerous things

The field has now been expanded to 18 teams - thanks to those who have volunteered to staff!

women, fire and dangerous things

A few updates: 1. This tournament will have a code of conduct to which all players and moderators will be required to agree in order to participate; it will be sent out with the logistics email. Those who violate the code of conduct will be given a warning and/or removed from the tournament, as appr...

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There are now 8 teams officially signed up, but the field cap has been expanded to 14.

women, fire and dangerous things

This is the official announcement for the main mirror of Scattergories 4 (announcement here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23552&p=364280&hilit=scattergories#p364280 ), which will be held on Discord on Saturday, August 22 starting at 11 AM EDT. Camera will be required...

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The most popular date is Saturday, August 22, so I'll be running the mirror then. Stay tuned for an announcement!

women, fire and dangerous things

Yes, the plan is for this to be the main site. (Though I may do more online or in-person mirrors later, if there are enough people who are interested but can't play this one.)

women, fire and dangerous things

I'm planning to run an online mirror of Scattergories 4, most likely in August. If you're interested in playing, please fill out the poll indicating which dates you'd be available. I'm not including August 8, since CAMP is running then - if there are other events that I've missed that are already sc...

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We haven't set a date yet, but we're planning to run Scattergories 4 as an online event this summer.

women, fire and dangerous things

I was planning on running Scattergories at the various side event weekends.

women, fire and dangerous things

I'm pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Scattegories, intended to be played as a side event in summer 2020. This version will be written by me and JinAh Kim, and will be more of the same Scattergories that you know and hopefully love: a very hard tournament about stuff that I like. As before...

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That being said, it now seemd to me that ACF doesn't really have a goal for what it wants to be. For a while, it seemed to me that ACF's purpose was to push the boundaries of pyramidal quizbowl by writing more and more innovative questions with more and more content, fostering an environment for th...

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Lauren can't make it anymore, so Dylan, Hayden and I are looking for a fourth in case anyone's looking for a team.

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The #25 ranked team is the friends we made along the way.

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Stats are finally up: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5 ... all_games/. Sorry again for the delay!

women, fire and dangerous things

Sorry for the delay, that totally slipped my mind! They'll be posted quite soon.

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This set is now clear, and the packets will be up on the database soon.

women, fire and dangerous things

A private discussion forum is now set up for Scattergories 3, which you can join by going to "User control panel" and then "Usergroups."

women, fire and dangerous things

This is a preliminary announcement for a Discord mirror of Scattergories 3, on the weekend of July 20. Apologies for not offering a broader range of possible dates; that weekend and the next weekend are basically the only times I could run it, and there are more people I know of who'd want to play t...

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I'd most likely come to this.

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If the field hovers around the size it's currently at, I probably wouldn't be inclined to make the drive down, personally.

women, fire and dangerous things

A couple updates:

1) Jaimie Carlson is now writing questions for this set!

2) I'd like to run a Discord mirror for those who can't play it at CO, ideally sometime in July. If you'd be interested in playing such a thing and have date preferences, post here or get in touch.

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Seems like there's a big group for a July mirror, but I'm assuming if I asked people to settle on one weekend those votes would be split. I'm currently leaning towards August 17th-18th to have a buffer after CO. This has the benefit of giving writers more time to polish their sets and not accidenta...

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At my very first tournament, my team impressively zeroed a 40-30-20-10-1 bonus which asked you to identify Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" from quotes, where the 1-point quote was "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."

women, fire and dangerous things

A July date, the earlier the better, would definitely be better for me.

women, fire and dangerous things

I'm still planning on having this run on CO Sunday, but I won't be able to make CO this year, so I'm looking for someone to run things for me in exchange for 20% of the revenue. If you'll be at CO and are interested in doing this, get in touch! I'd also love to see the questions played in person, th...

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I agree with the theory behind your post, that we shouldn't ask about states in literature when it tests trivial knowledge that isn't important to the context of the works. But I don't think that's the case for the questions in this set. There were three "states in lit" tossups, one of whi...

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The every.buzz detailed stats aren't quite ready, but I'm releasing the detailed stats spreadsheets for each individual site and for the combined sites. Please read all the information below before you view the spreadsheets. Overview The aim of detailed stats is to provide more data than standard st...

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14. The bodhisattva (“boh-dee-SUT-vuh”) Manjushri is most commonly depicted riding one of these creatures. One of these creatures nurses King Gesar (“GEZ-er”) in a Tibetan epic. It’s not a dog, but according to Okinawan legend, one of these animals caused a boulder to fall from heaven and crush a d...

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Two small errata, both on giveaways. I believe calling "Ezekiel" a "minor prophet" to be wrong, and "Ouranos" is not the husband of Rhea. I've fixed these two errata, thanks for pointing them out! 7. This figure is deemed a watchman for the people of Israel who will be...

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4. This man became exceedingly wealthy by throwing peeled branches into watering troughs (“troffs”) to make sheep have spotted and striped offspring. This man condemned two of his sons after they murdered all the men of Shechem in retaliation for the rape of their sister. On his deathbed, he condem...

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Something I noticed about the literature in this set is that there seemed to be a very notable number of tossups on countries in the lit. I heard several players remark on how that was sort of frustrating. I'm not confident that it was a problem so much as a preference, but I figured it was worth a...

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Yes, Rebecca contacted me about that protest; I ruled against it because though all the clues to that point apply to "beliefs," they don't all apply to "justified true beliefs." The previous clue was: To attain one status, these states must be linked to their objects by “causal c...

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I thought this set was pretty decent overall, but, echoing what Jacob, I felt like there was significant difficulty variance across categories. The history, for example, seemed like it could have played well at MUT or NSC, which isn't necessarily problematic, but was kind of jarring next to some of...

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I was aiming for this year's Regionals to be similar in spirit to last year's but a tad easier, but I definitely needed to do a better job of coordinating that between categories.

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This thread is for the discussion of the 2019 ACF Regionals set. First off, many thanks are due to my fabulous editing team: Rob Carson: geo/CE/trash/other, visual OFA Will Holub-Moorman: painting, philosophy, social science Dylan Minarik: myth, religion (taking over from Matt Bollinger, who wrote t...

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