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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!

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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.

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

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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.

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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."

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

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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 which was a t...

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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 held responsible if a wicked ...

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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 chains,” according to...

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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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I just sent an email with links to the scoresheets and packets to the hosts. If you're hosting and don't receive such an email in the next few minutes, let me know.

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The initial post has been updated with a final list of half-packets received, including the discounts for teams that submitted an optional half-packet by the no-penalty deadline. If anything looks wrong, please let me know. The following (non-house) team has submitted a packet but hasn't yet officia...

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Reminder that tomorrow is the last day to submit a half-packet!

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Lit playtesting in a few minutes!

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:33 am
I've also created a Doodle poll for biology playtesting - if you're interested, please indicate your availability here: https://doodle.com/poll/nt8tq9m8k25k7e2y

I'm planning to playtest the bio tonight after the lit - starting most likely around 10:00 (both of them in the IRC, as before).

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I've also created a Doodle poll for biology playtesting - if you're interested, please indicate your availability here: https://doodle.com/poll/nt8tq9m8k25k7e2y

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The remainder of the lit questions are written, so I'll be running a relatively short session to playtest the rest of them; I'm planning on this Wednesday at 9:00 PM Eastern, if enough people are available.

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The first post has been updated with a list of packets received by the +$50 deadline. A couple reminders: 1) If you've submitted your packet but don't see your team in the first post, please let me know. 2) January 20 is the last day you can submit the packet if you want to play the tournament, and ...

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The first post has been updated with a list of packets received by the +$25 deadine. Reminder that the +$50 deadline is this coming weekend and even steeper penalties accrue quickly after that, so get your packets in soon!

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Reminder that the first session is tonight!

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ErikC wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:57 pm
I'm interested in playtesting - will we get the email the night of or sooner?

Tomorrow just before playtesting starts, I'll send the details to any playtesters who show up in the main channel (#quizbowl).

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Back in my day, Discord was just what you used to connect dis buzzer to dis lockout system.

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I'm going to use this thread to organize playtesting sessions for ACF Regionals. The first such session will be this Saturday, January 5, at 9:00 PM Eastern, when I'll be playtesting a bunch of lit. I'll post a reminder later this week, but if you'd like to join and you're no longer in school, pleas...

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Bollywood is an interesting case because it's a huge industry but is very underdiscussed in Western film criticism and therefore underrepresented in canons like TSPDT. (Ignoring Ray and Ghatak, who worked outside of the popular Bollywood tradition, there are only four Bollywood films on the current ...

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A reminder that the no-penalty deadline is this Sunday, so I'm hoping to get lots of new packets in my inbox this weekend!

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theking259 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 24, 2018 6:40 pm
Thanks for the fields list. I’m assuming that detailed stats will be taken again, is that correct?

Sorry for talking so long to get back to you on this. We will indeed be using detailed stats, though individual hosts you don't want to can opt out.

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Update: This will be played as a side event on CO Sunday.

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15. A man gives a thumbs up while inclining his head towards the viewer in this artist’s painting The Lunch, whose composition is similar to his Farmers’ Lunch. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Spanish artist of Las Meninas. ANSWER: Diego (Rodríguez de Silva y) Velázquez [10] The aforementioned g...

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Could we get a link to the fields (from google sheets). I'd rather not post a public link to the sheet since it has people's phone numbers in it, but anyone curious about the field for a specific site is free to email me. Update: Cody helpfully created a version of the sheet that just has a list of...

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theking259 wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:05 am
Could we get a link to the fields (from google sheets).

I'd rather not post a public link to the sheet since it has people's phone numbers in it, but anyone curious about the field for a specific site is free to email me.

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The first post has been updated with a list of teams which submitted by the -$50 deadline.

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Teams which don't have to write a packet can get a $50 discount if they submit by the no penalty deadline (December 16).

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Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:59 am
The registration form doesn't seem to be working. It states that I need permission to access it.

Just tweaked a setting, so it should be fixed now.

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The United Kingdom site will be hosted by Oxford-Brookes.

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