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(e.g. Ashalaho and Ashshipíte seemed similar enough to Ashkúale for a moderator to recognize a knowledgeable player's answer). This is illuminating and, I think, a very unusual philosophy of answerline acceptability. In general we give points for saying what's in the answerline, not for sounding kn...

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I'm happy to see the return of ACF Winter and I thought this set was successful in a lot of ways. In particular it seemed like there was real attention paid to highlighting women, BIPOC, and other people who are often underrepresented in quizbowl, which is great! I also thought this set did well at ...

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I enjoyed reading this set! There were a lot more good ideas than I could list, but I remember particularly enjoying the bonus on fantasy coffins and the tossup on creoles. [10] In the guru–shishya system, students lived at gurukulam while supposedly using these scriptures to learn mathematics and a...

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The "top-scorer grad student on a top 5 team" thing bears repeating, though. When you're in a position that powerful & prominent, your actions can disproportionately affect others and you have an obligation to keep that in mind. Having even one person, let alone two (!), cheat at your ...

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Is it actually a net benefit for quizbowl to have a default position on when player bans and the like are (to use Olivia's words) "not enough of a response" / when to encourage going through other channels? Or is it better to perform a more expansive version of what I was taught to do in ...

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I have been wondering about the Title IX implications of misconduct reporting in quizbowl. My Title IX training has taught that graduate student TAs (and those in similar student-facing roles) have reporting obligations for Title IX violations, including sexual harassment and misconduct, that occur ...

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At your staff meeting, tell your staff that along with their quizbowl responsibilities, it’s their job to maintain a certain standard of behavior in their rooms, and that they should bring any concerns to you. I hope it's okay to revive this thread; I have been thinking about this issue a lot recen...

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I felt that the Hanukkah tossup was way too easy with the lead-in. Anyone who went to Hebrew School at any point could first-line it. Given Judaism is still something of a minority religion in the US, this doesn't seem like a huge problem, aside from the fact that a good share of quiz bowlers are J...

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I enjoyed reading the set! Can I see the spectrogram/larynx/nose bonus (bonus 9 in I think round 14)? This is very much in my real-life field so I was excited to encounter it. However I remember the "larynx" part saying something about how spectrograms aren't used to analyze voicing in fav...

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Stats here. Congratulations to Jael!

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"Any chance he got his hands on the Penn-ance packets? He had the weirdest neg in our game. He negged Compton Effect with "triple alpha." A. triple alpha is too hard for this difficulty but a couple of tossups later TRIPLE ALPHA COMES UP. Then he seemed to freeze up and completely un...

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I don't know; he hasn't volunteered a lot of information in his emails to me. My guess is he was never intended to come (how would Josh explain John showing up without the set?), but again that's just a guess. I suppose I could email him again to ask directly, but I don't really want to interrogate ...

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Maybe I should have been more clear; the statement was that John wanted the set to practice reading those questions specifically, to practice pronunciation and so on. I get this request a lot when I run tournaments, mostly from inexperienced readers.

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As announced in the other thread, MIT is vacating its first place win at Penn-ance. We can’t provide proof of misconduct by Josh as definitive as NAQT can for SCT and ICT, but we wanted to explain the observations and events that led to this decision. We were very under-staffed for Penn-ance, and Jo...

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In light of the recent developments regarding Josh's performance, MIT has decided to vacate its Penn-ance win. While we don't currently have any definitive proof of misconduct on Josh's part, we think the situation with NAQT raises enough questions about Josh's playing at Penn-ance to justify vacati...

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1. MIT
2. Yale A
3. Harvard A
4. Brown B
5. Alberta

Full stats are up in the link above.

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Morning stats (after 5 rounds) here.

reindeer · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012) So, when can MIT expect the set?

So, when can MIT expect the set?

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He can send it to me: omurton at mit dot edu.

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With 10 teams signed up, we're going to try to get two house teams together so that we can do a 12-team round robin plus finals. Registration will start at 8:45 in room 2-190 (building 2 is marked in the map linked in the first post); please try to arrive by 9.

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Also, if the field gets big enough, would MIT mind if we ran a mirror of Ike Jose's myth tournament after Penn-ance? I've been wanting to play it and I'd imagine others in our region do too. That's fine with me, and I imagine that at least a couple of the MIT staffers would be willing to read. We t...

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Just you and Alberta so far. Dartmouth and Harvard have expressed interest so I'm hoping to hear from them soon, as well as the other schools we've emailed. We may also be able to field a team of our own, if that turns out to make sense.

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MIT will be running the Northeast mirror of Penn-ance on October 20, 2012. Details about the set can be found here . To register, email me at omurton at mit dot edu. Posting in the thread to express interest is fine, but I can only accept registrations via email. Also, please note that open teams ar...

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Yale beats RPI in an advantaged final to win.

Stats: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/98 ... standings/

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So we're at 9 or 10 teams for tomorrow. Either way, we'll do a full round robin, probably a short playoff, and finals. Teams should meet in 2-136 by 8:40 AM.

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It seems that I'm the new TD for this tournament. I'd like to start by crystallizing the field; please tell me if any of my information is incorrect. FIELD (10): Cornell (1) Dartmouth (1) Harvard (1) NYU (2) RPI (1) Rutgers (1) Stony Brook (1) Wellesley (1) Yale (1) I have email addresses for Columb...

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The coach of a team in Barker in the afternoon asked me where he could find stats and I told him there would be a link in this thread; if he is still reading this and looking for them, they can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/158/.

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Five teams just aren't enough and it doesn't look like more are coming, so this tournament is not going to happen. TJ will probably use the set in its fall tournament next year.

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If we don't have at least 8 teams for this tournament by Wednesday at 10 PM, we're going to have to cancel it. It would be great if that didn't happen, so sign up!

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Walter Johnson has expressed an intent to register, and hopefully other teams will too. It is true, though, that this tournament is unlikely to happen unless they do.

reindeer · Re: GREYSON at TJ (4/30/11) Field (5): GDS Gonzaga Longfellow Marshall Robinson

Field (5):
GDS
Gonzaga
Longfellow
Marshall
Robinson

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TJHSST's housewrite this year, the GREYSON (Greatly Rewarding Experience You Should Obviously Navigate), will be held at TJ on April 30, 2011. The final field cap will depend on how some of our younger members do as readers, but we should be able to easily accommodate at least 24 teams. To register,...

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First, thanks to everyone who posted or emailed with praise for the TJ staff. I also especially want to thank the St. Anselm’s and RM teams for waiting through long (and probably confusing) delays while we tried to sort things out, Mr. Chrzanowski for being an excellent reader and impromptu advisor,...

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dimhalikias wrote:Will halftime substitutions be allowed?

They will. There can be no more than six players on a team's roster, though.

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Our administration changed its mind about allowing us to run tournaments on Sundays, so TJ's spring tournament will be held on Saturday, April 30 rather than March 20. Many thanks to VCU for accommodating us.

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Moderators; we have a lot of staffers, but too many of them are freshmen who definitely shouldn't be reading yet. Things may be better for the housewrite in the spring, though.

reindeer · Re: TJIAT @ TJ, 2/12/2011 Waiting list, in order: Hayfield

Waiting list, in order:
Hayfield

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The field is full at 24. We'll keep a waiting list in case one of the current teams drops; teams still interested should email [email protected].com. What time is registration for this tournament, and about when do you think it should be finished by? Registration will be from 8 to 9 in the audito...

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We're going to set a tentative field cap of 24. If anyone's still planning to sign up or at least express interest, it would be helpful to do so now.

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Field (23):
Bethesda Chevy Chase (2)
Bishop Ireton
Caesar Rodney
Centennial (4)
Georgetown Day
Gonzaga
Longfellow (2)
New Kent
Quince Orchard
RM (2)
Robinson (2)
St. Anselm's
Walter Johnson
Whitman (2)
Woodson

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TJHSST will be hosting its annual TJIAT, using HSAPQ’s Tournament #16, on Saturday, February 12, 2011. We’re hoping for 36 teams, at most. To register, please sign up at http://activities.tjhsst.edu/quizbowl/tjiatreg.php , and feel free to email us at [email protected].com if you have any questio...

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wexs883198215 wrote:When will registration be?

Registration will be from 8 to 9, in the cafeteria (not the auditorium, as has been the case in the past); there will be signs to direct you. There will be free breakfast (donuts, coffee, tea) during registration, and pizza for sale during lunch.

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With this a week away, the field cap is up to 28.

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The field for this is filling up quickly. We're going to try to expand the field to something more than 24, but we'd need more moderators and buzzers to make that happen. Any help in that area would be greatly appreciated. Also, if you haven't registered but are still interested, please let me know ...

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With eight teams signed up and less than three weeks to go, a reminder to please register for this.

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TJHSST will be hosting the NOEXIT (the Novice-Oriented EXcellent Invitational Tournament, a mirror of the Fall Novice Tournament), at TJ on Saturday, October 16. Players must be in their first or second year of high school quizbowl as a high school student to be eligible; any middle school experienc...

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It's at the University of Missouri--the singles tournament here.

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RyuAqua wrote:Now that this tournament is over, is the NAREN set cleared for discussion? Will it be posted?

We just got another mirror on 5/22, so the set isn't cleared until then. It'll be posted after that, though.

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Final standings: 1. Maggie Walker A 2. Walter Johnson 3. Whitman A 4. RM A 5. Chaperoned Children 6. RM B Thanks to everyone who came or staffed, to Donald Taylor for helping us out with history, and to the snow for stopping well in advance of today. Please note that the set is not cleared for discu...

reindeer · Re: NAREN Rescheduled (2/20/10) Stats link.

Stats link.

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