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bradleykirksey

Hello everyone! This is a general announcement that we are writing SuMO VI. We’re aiming to have it finished by late June. It’ll be put together by Mickey Sizemore, Griffin Thompson, Cody Johansen, Mitch Alday, Daniel Golisch, and myself. This tournament series is Mitch Alday’s baby. Mitch, as I und...

bradleykirksey

I don't really know about that. 1) I think that if your circuit wants to have a "gentleman's agreement" rule and the Midwest wants to knock each others' brains out on easy questions, why do you care what they do? That might sound a little bit snarky, but I mean it as a genuine question. Is there any...

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So, depending on a few people trying to get standby flights, and a few people who aren't responded to texts, we're looking to have either 7 or 8 teams (Or 14-16 pairs). Obviously, we're aiming for 8, because byes are gross. We're looking to kick-off at 9 AM, and we're meeting at HPA 1 107. HPA 1 is ...

bradleykirksey

Hey guys! It's that time of year again. We're holding a site of SuMO in Orlando, at UCF, on July the 6th. It'll be at UCF, we're going to aim to start at 9:30. Like usual for SuMO, you sign up in pairs, and you'll be randomly matched up the night before or the morning of. Pairs are $50 each, but hal...

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It might be worth noting that the above criteria would include several people who are not currently going to school, like…Jesse Gingold I sure hope he's enrolled, because he's been playing stuff . Yeah. My post initially said "at a 4 year University" and included Jesse because he normally played CC...

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Edit: I saw "played two of these tournaments" instead of "Open players are not eligible" and then listed a bunch of ineligible open players. Then I, even more stupidly, included Jesse Gingold, who is most definitely enrolled at Valencia, because I am a moron, which is my primary motivation for most ...

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If NAQT wants to maintain its consistent position that all games are a measure of a team's strength, I think that isn't the most unreasonable decision they could make. Losing to a playoff team in particular should always count against you IMO - it sure does in the top bracket of ACF Nationals! OK, ...

bradleykirksey

Of course, your mileage may vary, but Charlie, I don't think that this thread is painting a really accurate picture of quiz bowl people. Every time I've been to ICT, I've spent time hanging out with Valencia, UF, Toronto, and a lot of other good people that I enjoy seeing. And when we go to places l...

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UF B appears to have had six wins over non-sandbag teams before the finals. OK, they had 6 wins NCF had 5 UCF C had 4 right? Edit: OK, yes, thanks for the edit, I think I get what you're asking better. It wasn't my decision, I have no idea what was actually happening, but it looks like the TD 1) Di...

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Looking at the stats posted to the TDB, I cannot make heads or tails of the playoff format, and it looks like some teams played 4 playoff games and others only 2. Can anyone enlighten me? Top bracket teams played 3 games against each other. Bottom bracket teams played 3 against each other. Then the...

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Aaron, I'm not sure if most teams are super solidified yet. Or, really, any of them. I do know that Griffin Thompson lost a teammate when the date changed, and I believe that Zach Foster's team only has 3.

bradleykirksey

I'm sort of out of the loop, but did no one in the south east put in a bid except GT? UCF and UF like hosting, and Atlanta is 7 hours away from UCF and from me. And I think that it's farther for NCF.

Well, I guess it sounds like a long day of driving ahead!

bradleykirksey

Hello everyone! We finished the set. Most of the games were either won or lost, and tossups were had by all. We had a three way tie for first place that we weren't able to break because of time/logistical reasons. Congrats to Jakob Myers's team (With Leo Law, Peter Torres, and Jakob's dad) for winni...

bradleykirksey

Hello everybody! On June 30th, we’ll be mirroring SuMO here in Orlando. Just like the Tennessee site, we’ll be using SSNCT, we’ll be using matched doubles, and there will be a prize pool for teams that do well. To elaborate on the above, you sign up with one other person, making a team of two. The m...

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NAQT has a legally binding set of bylaws that each member agrees to and formally signs on to when they accept membership in the company. In order for NAQT to remove a member, we have to follow the established grievance procedure that everyone has agreed to. If we do not do this, it opens our proces...

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Let me clarify that I'm not calling for Matt Bruce to be expelled right away simply because of how damning everything in this thread is. In fact, I'm completely in favor of NAQT going through a formal procedure, especially when allegations are as serious as they are here. However, while NAQT did ev...

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In this particular case, NAQT has the summer offsesaon to conduct its formal grievance process, but what happens if (God forbid) concerns surface while the circuit is active? I sincerely hope NAQT and other organizations work to establish a more rapid internal process to address concerns about stud...

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Here's a brief overview of how the grievance process specified in NAQT's bylaws works: Step 1: a written grievance is filed against an NAQT member Step 2: the member has the opportunity to respond in writing to the grievance Step 3: a panel of three NAQT members is appointed to produce a written re...

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Is there any internal difference between termination of membership and resignation within NAQT? I know that there some sort of profit-sharing given to NAQT members at the end of each year's cycle. Would resignation divest a member? Or does it work like stock in that a resigned member could still pr...

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I'm basically out of the circuit at this point, especially at the national level, so maybe my opinion is worthless. But, if anyone is curious about the South East... 4th scorer of the year, on a national level, has to be Adam Fine, right? But 16 points per game on 2 negs at ICT on the way to a natio...

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OK, hear me out. Timothy Guice.

Like, he may not be a top-25 talent, but think about how much more it would mean for him than for Eric Mukherjee.

bradleykirksey

After 10 years of quiz bowl, I'm not sure, but I do think that you're not ACF and you don't need to defend them. But what if there's something nutty like the 2016 ACF Regionals answerline where they gave us the excellent "New York City " answerline at first playthrough? I understand that you're not ...

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At the risk of becoming "the person who only goes onto the forums to hype up UF"...

UF should probably be considered closer to their finish at Nats (14th) than ICT (19th) because they were full strength at Nats, not ICT. John L just really isn't the same type of player that Tracy is.

bradleykirksey

Basically my only complaint is the Haldane tossup," ... "I personally feel that books written for laypeople should NOT appear in science questions, and especially not *multiple* books Do you mind if I ask if 1) This is just for Nats difficulty, and not across the board? Or is this something that sh...

bradleykirksey

I'm inclined to the belief that running a "rogue" tournament against something more established like SCT is its own punishment: people won't go to your event and you will have wasted your time. Further, I refuse to believe that any rogue quizbowl organizations are out there thinking "he he he, I am...

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As long as we're promoting teams, I think UF is traditionally underrated because of their circuit. They finished 17th at last year's ICT and they had an unfortunate 3-way-tiebreak with Toronto and Chicago C push them out of second bracket at Nats. And they're returning their three highest scorers an...

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I'm not sure where he stands among the rest of the players already mentioned, but I think Taylor Harvey deserves a shout (yes I'm kind of biased because he's my teammate, but still). He has good coverage between "trash film" and "art film" from my experience being next to him while he does film thi...

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2 Tejas Raje A Post-Psychoanalytic Marxist Analysis Of Lil' Yachty's "Peek A Boo" 11.0 38 powers 9 tossups 6 negs Really?? That's a pretty awesome statline. I think that's the highest power % I've ever seen (not counting freshmen going 1/0/0 or something). https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/play...

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2 Tejas Raje A Post-Psychoanalytic Marxist Analysis Of Lil' Yachty's "Peek A Boo" 11.0 38 powers 9 tossups 6 negs

Really??

That's a pretty awesome statline. I think that's the highest power % I've ever seen (not counting freshmen going 1/0/0 or something).

bradleykirksey

I spent a little time playing with the stats from JCD. Most tossups were pretty direct and able to fall into one category. I broke the stats down for the biggest categories so people could have a little fun comparing stats in individual niches. In gaming, we got 1) Harrison Andrew 5/3/1 (100 pts, 13...

bradleykirksey

Hello Alan!

It'll be at UCF on February 24th.

Having written about a quarter of the set, I'm really excited about this! I hate to spoil the surprise, but maybe more than 80% of the tossups are going to stem from the the hit show Torchwood and the band Die Antwood!

bradleykirksey

No offense intended! Lunch-gate was at UCF, and I'm sure you've been doing that since before Virginia. I just would have never figured it out if someone didn't point it out to me.

bradleykirksey

UCF and Valencia both have irritating set-ups where Valencia gets rooms in an adjacent building, and UCF will gets rooms spread out over four floors. I have no idea if this is relatable to anyone else, but this was God-send to me. As per Virginia Ruiz, who was something of a moderator whisperer, kee...

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Edit: I don't know how to read and I'm sorry

bradleykirksey

OK, so I've had a few beers, I've been watching TV, and I have a short attention span. So help me out, here. Are we saying 1) The difference between myth and religion is that religion tossups are usually about the religious source material and that a tossup about Jesus walking on water is myth? 2) H...

bradleykirksey

That did happen. I'm grateful to everyone who put time, energy, and effort into making quiz bowl happen. After all, I didn't do it. But between that and (IIRC) a few occasions where the answer was given away in the bonus ("this logician..." logic is an answer to the middle part, "this novelist"... n...

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Billy, that's a good point I would have never thought about. Though I suspect that as long as the other team wasn't Chris, I think most people would just agree to have Chris resolve it. Either way, it's a moot point now, but if someone around here plays and TD's again, it might be better to reason t...

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The southeast has always worked on an honor system of sorts before, like all of the other circuits I'm sure. UCF had paper packets for the 2012 DII SCT and Mickey and Chas had extremely close ties to one of Valencia's players, and Valencia and that player didn't do any better than D values and previ...

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First off, I had a ton of fun, and I appreciate all of the effort and love that goes into a set like this. There were several answerlines that really popped out at me as creative and interesting. My teammates loved the common link Michael Scott tossup, the Florida circuit at large really liked the H...

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People will always game a system that leaves itself open to being gamed. I don't think I necessarily agree. If you're right, shouldn't we be seeing teams lined up to be doing that? Off the top of my head, I can think of Waterloo, Columbia, St. Charles CC, Sergeant Reynolds, and Minnesota CTC who ha...

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1. What keeps you doing quizbowl? Rather, what keeps you going, even in the face, say, getting slaughtered in a game? I keep doing quizbowl the same reason I started doing quizbowl: I love the competition and learning random knowledge. But I also keep doing quizbowl because of all the people I've m...

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Charles is right. We've floated the idea of running things in the Central Florida area over Christmas break before, and the general consensus is that the people who are staying here tend to like their families more than the idea of staffing a tournament. It's a nice idea in theory, but actually tryi...

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A revise-and-resubmit approach might address this problem since it places the burden of work back onto the teams instead of on the editors 100% agree! This was my first time writing a packet, and I would love feedback or criticism or whatever the kids give these days. It's hard to write a good ques...

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Sorry I may be a bit late getting back to this, and I see the conversation's moved on a bit, but I just got back from work. Clues of extreme real-world importance and fame are being often used too early in tossups, and should come later if they are used at all. (E.g.: Weber's definition of the state...

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Piping in quickly to say as someone who's written at least three tossups about Purim/the book of Esther in my time, that the Book of Esther really isn't that long and doesn't have very many salient details to draw on. So tossups on it/her are going to draw on those same details as clues over and ov...

bradleykirksey

"Interesting" and "care" cover what I was going to say pretty well, but I think another part of it is lead-ins and how unique your clues and answer lines are. To pick an example about the lead-ins, there are 10 tossups on Esther in Quinterest. 2 of them mention Bigthana and Teresh in the first line ...

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Jon, I'm not entirely sure what the concern is. Obviously, the couple of people who said that the field should average 2 PPB or that the bottom 4 teams should get 30 PPB are trolls, but that wasn't enough to really mess with the results, was it? There seems to be a pretty strong belief that the bott...

bradleykirksey

Different schools do different things and it'll depend on your SGA and college. Normally schools who go through SGAs tend to get about one tournaments worth of funding (in my limited experience talking about this) and tend to be frustrated a lot. Schools with more institutional funding (in our first...

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Hello Krystian! It's been five or six years since I considered applying to USA, but if I remember right, y'all have a fairly active honors college, right? When we had to reboot the UCF team, we went from 3 to 15 literally overnight when the dean of our honors college allowed us to use the honors col...

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UCF Seven syllables upfront / Team so surreal / Even "haiku" strange At our first ICT in 2012, I was walking back from Giordano's alone and I stopped to cross the street. I thought I heard footsteps behind me and I turned to see who. I caught the inside of my ear on a rusty stop sign bad enough to ...

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