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Will this set be posted soon?

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Thanks to Oli for running a good tournament and to all of the moderators.

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I think a lot of this just boils to “write good tossups” and the only difference from the rest of the set is your third point, that you don’t want to make them too hard to convert. I understand why people would put tossups they think are worse as some of the later tiebreakers, but doing so means the...

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I enjoyed playing MWT tossups only, I think the online format hinders bonuses more so than it does tossups and would prefer to make this tossups only as well.

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The 2019-20 PACE Writing Mentorship Program has concluded. Congratulations to the graduates of the program: Jakob Boeye Briana Magin Noah Sheidlower Tony Chen Juliet Mayer Lalit Maharjan William Grossman William Yaeger I also want to give thanks to the following people: Ophir Lifshitz and Victor Pri...

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Can we get a field update as well as any other logistics info?

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All applicants should have been notified of the evaluation committee's decision a little while ago. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to apply.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:17 pm
My personal preference is if feasible, you should. If doing so would result in wordiness or lack of pyramidality, then don't. I do agree with including the information in a note in the answerline.

Agree with Mike here.

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Just a note to writers that any time a question clues a work or person, they should be named at some point. Preferably they would be namedropped later in the question, if not there should be a note after the answerline with this info. This info is useful both for editors who need to be able to easil...

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Just as a reminder, applications are due Sunday by midnight Central time.

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Can you give an estimate on when you expect the tournament to end? I don’t know how long the questions/rounds are.

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Just a reminder that you have a little over a month to get your applications in. Let me know if you have any questions about the program.

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There will be. TBA. Any updates on this? I think we olds would appreciate getting practice on an all-category tournament before CO. Sorry; a family member had a medical emergency the week after NASAT, so that & work has kept me busy. I will be trying to get this set up soon. Is there any update on ...

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PACE is pleased to announce the continuation of our mentorship program for new writers. Program Details The program is scheduled for October 1 through January 12. Mentees admitted into the program will be expected to complete an assignment of 24 questions by January, with mentoring and feedback bein...

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What were the details behind the "Lil Wayne" wrong answer? 11. This artist recorded the first LP to sell one million copies; that album by this man features seven songs written at least in part by Lord Burgess and concludes with a song that asserts “ever since the world began / woman was always tea...

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I'm suggesting that, as of right now, young writers ought to avoid PACE if they want to find an organization or project that encourages them to contribute, cultivates their talent, and offers them recognition for their efforts and opportunities to contribute more. I'll respond specifically to this,...

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I like this schedule, although I’d rather not play on the clock. Relatedly, will someone be excising the excessively British tossups like last year? That would help cut it down a bit instead of having a clock.

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Seeing as this is side event weekend, I’d prefer to make Cambridge Open as short as possible in favor of hopefully getting another event in on Saturday.

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Any chance of an online mirror?

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Will we be playing guerrilla history? I’d like to have that, preferably Saturday but if not then Sunday after acronym.

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Can the packets be posted soon?

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Can we get a field update?

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Thanks to Rama and all the readers, this was the most well run online tournament I’ve played in.

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All of the collegiate mirrors of this set are complete, the only remaining high school mirror is at Solon in February. To reiterate, EFT is not clear until February, so please discuss it only in the private discussion forum. If you are in college and would like a copy of the set, whether you played ...

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I would prefer to play in person (possibly after a PIANO mirror?).

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Could you post the tossup on "postmodernism"? I recall Lyotard's definition being clued very early. A 1993 book named for this adjective includes a story that begins by telling its end: “the Sun is going to explode.” Those “fables” of this type were created by a philosopher who argued that this mov...

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Can I see the tossup on the Book of Judges? I'm curious as to what translation was used for the quotation in the first line, as I remember it being different from the translations I've read. The final verse of this book declares that “everyone did as they saw fit,” a phrase repeatedly used througho...

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For the Critique of Pure Reason bonus, if I recall correctly, it said that David Hume read it and it awoke him from his "dogmatic slumbers." This is wrong, Kant read and said that about Hume. Hume died before Critique of Pure Reason was published. You’re right about that, sorry for the error. Edit:...

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Here you go: The first member of this ethnic group to become a millionaire in the U.S. was a farmer known as “The Potato King.” A 1913 Alien Land Act primarily targeting members of this ethnic group caused many of them to lease land under the names of their native-born children. This ethnic group’s...

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janieldensen wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:10 am
Field Update (10/8/18):
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Sally Hemings
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Hasn’t this team been asked to stop doing this?

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Berniecrat wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:37 pm
For the Inquisition part, was there a reason Council of Blood not accepted or prompted?

By my understanding, it’s not quite equivalent since the Council of Blood occurred later and was primarily meant to target rebel lords. My apologies if there was any ambiguity.

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Thanks to everyone for playing. To discuss the set, please join the discussion forum at User Control Panel -> Usergroups -> 2018 EFT Discussion.

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Thanks to everyone for playing. To discuss the set, please join the discussion forum at User Control Panel -> Usergroups -> 2018 EFT Discussion.

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The winners were Don't Forget to Bring a Towel! (Stephen Liu, Jason Golfinos, Alex Schmidt, Peter Schmidt). Stats will be up on SQBS within a few days. Also, I want to request again that anyone who played this tournament join the discussion forum and share your thoughts. The goal of this mirror was ...

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Here you go: Frederick Lugard laid out the British principles of indirect rule in this modern-day country, where he served as High Commissioner for its northern part. In this modern-day country, King Jaja worked his way out of slavery to rule the state of Opobo, which sold palm oil directly to Brita...

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The discussion forum for this set is now up.

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Please discuss specific questions or request to see questions here, with your reason for requesting them.

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Thanks to everyone for playing EFT, I hope you enjoyed the tournament. The production of this set was not exactly smooth, since Joey abandoned the project a few weeks ago, so there are many people to thank for rescuing this set. First of all, thanks to Ike Jose, who ended up writing the most questio...

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Thanks to everyone for playing, hope you enjoyed the set. A discussion forum will be up soon, but in the meantime please email me at tejascraje at gmail with any comments, criticism or feedback. Thanks again to Alex for running this and to all of the readers as well.

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I have serious concerns with the contents of these shirts, both of these make some sense in the context of quizbowl but I would absolutely not want to wear them in public. As you know, the usual definition of negging is something totally different and entirely negative and the second shirt seems lik...

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Thanks to Mike and everyone else at UIUC for running this, it was a really fun and well organized weekend. Thanks as well to everyone who staffed and helped out, and of course to the writers.

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I’m in favor of keeping the format as is for Words and Objects, with free agents just joining existing teams. I recognize the issue with not having the best way to determine a champion but I think this format will get the most out of the existing packets.

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For what it’s worth, I’d prefer to move one of the two film tournaments to the Saturday night spot previously occupied by Snick and keep everything else the same.

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Is there a reason you’re abandoning the longstanding and beloved tradition of Terrapin’s name using Roman numerals?

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I’d suggest having a separate award for total newcomers, players who had never played quizbowl before.

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I’ll second Mike, I haven’t watched as many of the movies that came up here but this was very fun to play.

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I don't know much about the topic of this question, but it has one of the best leadins I've heard. This poet’s complaint about Ben Jonson’s phrase “the bodies that those souls were frighted from” is probably the source of the prescription against using prepositions to end sentences with. Matthew Pri...

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I enjoyed the set, I thought in general the questions were quite good and I didn't notice any systemic problems. Here's a few general comments I had: The trash felt really imbalanced to me, I remember only one TV bonus and a couple film questions but almost all of it was music. There were two too ma...

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I don’t think anyone’s mentioned this but one very important thing a TD needs to do is double check that for packet sub tournaments, no team is scheduled to play on their packet.

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Someone should correct me if I'm wrong, but from my analysis, the median buzzpoint at the Georgia Tech site, which had (according to forum post here ) ten teams in attendance, was .996 (!!) (and an average above .90) Just to be clear, this was only referring to music tossups, as Chandler's hypothes...

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