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From what I can tell, Owen is a very good tournament director who has run good, strong events. In an ideal world, I would advise Owen to work within existing organizations and circuits to promote good quizbowl and run events. Perhaps that could include continuing to run online tournaments in the sam...

Cheynem · Re: CO Trash 2022 (August 7, 2022, Evanston) What about Ryan Wittman?

What about Ryan Wittman?

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Are there any plans for Midwest opens/summer tournaments? I'm not sure what schools could host or what the policies for hosting are, but ideally you could get a host of players. NASAT or Ottawa Hybrid would make a good main event tournament, and presumably there are a number of side events on the do...

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They're waiting to announce packet submission plans.

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Shourjo.Ganguli wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:03 pm May I see the Godot tossup?

Afraid you've got to do some...

WAITING

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Yeah, it wasn't there when I was reading.

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Atlashill wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 10:11 am *raises hand sheepishly*

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.

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eygotem wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 11:39 pm This oxygen-carrying protein found in red blood cells, for 10 points name.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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A poem, an author from this people wrote. “Song of the Flight”, it is often translated as. A collection of “ballads of the lords”, it is included in. Someone, an author imagines, who “in our basement, lived, and my parents, sacrificed”, in a 2012 poetry collection about her meth-addicted brother. [...

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Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

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Halinaxus wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 5:27 pm At some point I might try to write some myself

Do or do not. There is no try.

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With the delays in announcing things, is this tournament now run by Dan Puma?

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When the deadline states "by Saturday," does that mean the packet needs to be in by 12:01 AM Saturday or just any time that day? I would love to have more time of the weekend to work on the packet if needed.

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So, to clarify, these are completely new questions that have never been in a NASAT or will not be in a future NASAT?

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Will the final stats be posted?

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This was an enjoyable tournament and the questions were good.

I *might* suggest updating some of the clues--they weren't huge deals, but particularly in sports questions, a number of the questions about what teams players are on, etc. are out of ate.

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They should have gone out this afternoon.

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I think Caleb does identify some potential issues, but I think they can be worked around--at the very least, you might need to do something like bring in editors specifically to handle categories, like geo/CE/pop culture, that your other editors may not be able to do on their own.

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I'm looking for a team for this, and would like to get on a team before the field fills up.

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That May 1st field is huge--is there enough staff and logistics for such a field? Do we need to do anything else (besides pay) to complete registration?

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Could there be an announcement at some point (or just tweak this thread to make this the re-announcement)?

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Is this happening in 2022?

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If this tournament brings a little joy into my humdrum life, I hope it makes you feel as though your hard work ain't been in vain for nothing. Bless you all!

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Did you get our team's registration?

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This is a good article; thanks for gathering the information. I wonder if we could get even more anal (or random) and try to figure out if there's certain other factors that frequently go into upsets...I've always thought, perhaps incorrectly, that upsets are likely to happen at the beginning of set...

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Matt Weiner, Dr. Eric Mukherjee, and myself are looking for a fourth player for the May 1st mirror. Preferably someone who knows "other" sports and modern TV/music.

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CO Trash is also expected to happen, which basically fills up CO weekend (as well as already announced events like JAMES, which could happen, and things that are already completed and could be mirrored again, like Ottawa Hybrid or Music for the Masses). Throw in a potentially still uncertain hosting...

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I'd definitely play an online mirror of this if someone's interested in running one.

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I am probably interested in playing of these (likely May 1st) if no in person mirrors pop up (but I'd totally be interested in that). I'd like some teammates who actually know things about recent popular culture.

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Seconding the call for an online mirror since there doesn't appear to be a HSNCT mirror this year. (Or maybe we can get a regional Midwest mirror?)

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These are very qualified and impressive winners, and congratulations to both of them. I especially like that Borglum is one of the few people still in quizbowl that can unironically call me a "young person."

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Pardon my ignorance, or if I'm just not parsing this properly, but is this an audio set (i.e. audio tossups) or just regular quizbowl questions?

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Hi, I've done a packet on songs in film, in the same vein as three others did a while ago (as far as I know, this packet is completely new material, although I'm sure I've plagiarized myself at times). There are 20 tossups. I would like to read the packet at 11 PM Eastern time in the Discord tonight...

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Is the Parks and Community the show where Leslie Knope teaches at a local college but runs afoul of Dean Pelton?

In seriousness: One question I have is what difficulty and audience this tournament is intended for. The suggestions are very good so far.

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I think Matt Bollinger upthread got at a good point that a lot of "trivia" really highlights more of the *experience*, not just the competition. Like when I go to a pub trivia-Geeks Who Drink-like event, I want to win, of course, but I think a lot of people there, including some people on ...

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This is an exhaustive (but not exhausting!) post on an interesting topic. I'm not fully experienced in the "trivia" world, but I do have a few thoughts: 1. I totally agree that things like Buzzword, QBlitz events (like Dede Allen or PAVEMENT), and even breezy side events (Acro-Demia, etc.)...

Cheynem · Re: 2022 Chicago Open: August 6, 2022 @ Evanston, IL Thank you CO CEOs.

Thank you CO CEOs.

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Can you put the date in the thread name?

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Thanks for posting this--I think Joe is an extremely worthy candidate.

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As far as I know, Ryan hasn't worked on any tournaments in a while. In terms of modern candidates (these comments will be short): Matt Jackson seems a no-brainer. An extremely good writer and editor and very much a force for promoting good quizbowl. While Ike Jose had a rather problematic exit strat...

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There are many modern/active people who are widely deserving of a Carper, but I assume these are pretty known to ACF membership. Can some oldsters comment on Matt Keller's candidacy? He seems like he was one of the most respected writers/editors for a few years before (at least to my knowledge) disa...

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These are the previous winners, for reference: [I am assuming that you cannot win this Carper award if you already won an ACF membership Carper--I do not know if this is true, to be clear.] Previous winners: 1999: Dr. N. Gordon Carper 2000: Dr. Carol Guthrie 2001: Dr. Robert Meredith 2002: not prese...

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I think there's four reasons I can think of in favor of bonuses beyond simply "do they affect who wins the game" and "do they take up more time than the net score might indicate." 1. We learn from them. While this can be taken to unhelpful and ludicrous extremes, I do think we ca...

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I also think that early clues also sometimes form a foundation for future buzzes--even if few people buzz on that particular clue, they receive some context and information that helps them to buzz at a later point. (This isn't always true, and it's not good if consistently no early clues are being b...

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Paul, I think a number of your thoughts are pretty good, but I guess I will say this in regards to two of them: -In a lot of tournaments, "Name this planet named for the Roman god of war that has a red surface" would be too easy for an easy part. However, I do think rare is the part where ...

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I think that clue about Fillmore is fine added information because it's short and comes very early. It's when we get bonus parts like the ones that Henry mentioned where the added information is sprinkled throughout the part and sometimes drowns out the easy clue or information.

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I think kind of depends on the tournament--for easier college tournaments, six lines might be fine. However, at regular college difficulty, six lines is very hard to get in good clues and gradate. I think personally college questions are generally appropriate length-wise, but they, especially on bon...

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I would assume if there is a booster policy it would be something like "you are required to have a booster if you are able, within medical guidelines, to get one."

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Again?

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Is there any information about payment?

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