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Rethink this.

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Deception Point is Brown's greatest work.

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I do feel as if the tenor of this post, mostly in the way that it addresses mental and physical health, could be a little more understanding. I don't necessarily disagree with this, and think we can always afford to "be a little more understanding". Having said that, I do want to state that I found...

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Noble Rot wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 27, 2019 11:29 pm
I am pleased to announce that the University of Maryland will mirror the 2019 iteration of Early Fall Tournament (EFT) on Saturday, November 2, 2019

That doesn't seem right...

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The logistics email says we're doing META on Sunday afternoon, but this post says it's MUSES. Which one is it? (both! both!)

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Are there any specific literature bonuses you found too difficult, or was it an aggregate effect? Also, if other people found the literature bonuses too difficult, please let me know. I tried to make them reasonable, but I want to know if I overshot things. I found them to be eminently 10able, freq...

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Round 13 has B10 playing 2 games.

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This happened and stats are here: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5434/. Congratulations to Los Pedejos (Brendan McKendy, Ian Dewan, Shelby Robert, and Nick Penner) on winning the tournament! Huge thanks to everyone on the writing team, especially the three people who joined the team in the las...

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Field has many updates, still many spots available! :)

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Hey, all, I'm sorry. I don't have much more to say, except that I'm sorry in particular to any teams that had their experience yesterday ruined by our playing. I did feel like I was saying "we've been doing this a long time" in an apologetic tone to the novice teams a lot. The only motivation we had...

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ThisIsMyUsername wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:13 pm
Might we also be able to run SHAWARMA II on Sunday?

Canadians in attendance would also like Eyes That Do Not See, if that's still being considered.

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ALSO ANNOUNCED IN THE ACADEMIC SUBFORUM The writers of Canadian Hybrid 2019 are happy to announce that the main site of the Canadian Hybrid Tournament will be on Sunday, March 24th, 2018 at Carleton University. More information about the Canadian Hybrid Tournament can be found in the global announce...

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The writers of Canadian Hybrid 2019 are happy to announce that the main site of the Canadian Hybrid Tournament will be on Sunday, March 24th, 2018 at Carleton University. More information about the Canadian Hybrid Tournament can be found in the global announcement . Location and Logistics TBD Regist...

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ALSO ANNOUNCED IN THE ACADEMIC SUBFORUM We are pleased to announce that Canadian Hybrid will be returning again in 2019, written by Joe Su, Jack van Nostrand, Milan Fernandez, Austen Freisacher, Henry Atkins, and Faith Barrett. I will be serving as head-editor, and we aim to produce a product simila...

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Post reserved for writing updates

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We are pleased to announce that Canadian Hybrid will be returning again in 2019, written by Joe Su, Jack van Nostrand, Milan Fernandez, Austen Freisacher, Henry Atkins, and Faith Barrett. I will be serving as head-editor, and we aim to produce a product similar to last year's. The most notable chang...

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1. Christine Irwin: She is the best movies and TV player in the country, across all times and genres, a brilliant music player at her categories, is enough of a chart-follower to be decent at music outside of her strengths, and keeps up with all pop culture and celebrity gossip. So let's address the...

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Aaron Dos Remedios and I have begun our study regimen for this tournament.

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I'M SO EXCITED

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This set is great!

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Stats for RAPTURE

Brendan -5
Erik 20
Leslie 70
Adam 90
Rein 100
Ian 280
Aayush 300

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Something that could definitely help address this is promoting more diverse writing staffs. I know that, as a woman, I naturally gravitate towards studying and engaging with woman-produced media. It's not surprising that writing staffs made up almost entirely of men, as is often the case in housewr...

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Is there a discussion forum for this set?

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This is going (further) off-topic, but I'll ditto that I think 1/1 is the right amount of AmHist. I don't think it needs more (but could see an argument), and definitely don't think it should fall to any less. I like the genre-based distributing of literature, but do think that the amount of America...

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Joining the bandwagon! This tournament was a lot of fun to play, especially if you like "figure it out"-type questions. A great set :)

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This man should go.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote: yeah, not currently a student, seems straightforward even in the crazy mixed-up land of Canada

Gotta say, though, playing him back in 2014 was inspirational, he's so good!

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Two other stray thoughts: 1) I will say that I agree with the general message of this thread. However, the tone is horribly condescending and rather mean-spirited. The bizarre references to "gay neighbourhoods" infuriated me, and I'm not entirely sure why. And in general telling people how to live t...

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So I only skimmed this thread, but as far as I can tell, this is the only thing that needs a response. It's stuff like this that cheapens the entire message to the point of irrelevance. No one's consciousness is being raised and no one's mind is being changed by taking this kind of attitude, nor is ...

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Wow, this entire thread is a BAD take. If you have a bowl cut and aren't a gay person living in Bushwick, get a haircut if you want to. Otherwise don't. If you haven't cut your hair in 3 months, get a haircut if you want to. Otherwise don't. If you are balding but you also want to have really long h...

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If the mirror of Delta Burke happens, I'm playing it on a team of 2 with Derek So.

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I'd like to register a team of me, Ian Greig, and some others.

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This was fun to play!

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Can we please not hijack this thread to make snarky, divisive comments alluding to racial and cultural politics? I understand the frustration at this highbrow / lowbrow division but come on - the head editor is noted Very Liberal and Not White Person Auroni Gupta. I'm not frustrated about the divis...

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1.82 wrote:Can you elaborate on what "highbrow" pop culture is? What distinguishes acceptable academic content from unacceptable trash?

In general, if it's important to white men, it's highbrow.

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This post reserved for writing updates and paque submissions and such. Writing update December 11th: 15% TUs, 16% bonuses written (unedited). January 11th: 30% TUs, 24% bonuses written (unedited). February 2nd: 52% TUs, 46% bonuses written (unedited). March 7th: 81% TUs, 77% bonuses written (unedite...

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I'm potentially interested in playing this. Can I get more information about the field / number of packets / distribution?

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Set was very good. I enjoyed lots.

Bio was hard.

Very little India stuff.

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I think the tossup on "Judges" opened with a clue that was true of Jael and not Deborah (unless it quoted from the Song of Deborah). If I'm right, then that's a problem because Jael is not a judge.

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We're mirroring FOGEY, come play it.

Cost $10 per player.
-$5 if you bring buzzers.

Format will likely be teams of 4, but if the field is too small, we might do doubles instead (unlikely).

MC 4040 is base. Be there at 9 AM, for a 9:30 start.

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Rein Otsason is very good at the science things. I think most Nats-attending players have a range of topics for which they can say "I am virtually unbeatable on this subject matter". But while some are rather narrow (mine is Saivite Hindu mythology), Rein's is scarily broad (most of the physics thin...

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Mike Bentley wrote:So is tonight's match still on?

Kurtis's last post seems to indicate that Round 3 is next Sunday.

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I'm not sure what caused the late start yesterday, but I did want to say that this tournament is super fun! I love the questions, love the associated bonuses, love the format...everything is great :)

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The most experienced non-Patrick Canadians - Rein Ostason, Jay Misuk and Aayush Rajasekaran (the former of which is, to my understanding, a fairly strong history player) Your understanding is woefully off. Rein is garbage at history. ...these Canadian slackers... ...none of these Canadians did jack...

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Assuming the format for NATT supports teams of size >= 3, I will be playing it with Ian Greig and Rein Otsason.

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I'll play this with Huma Zafar and maybe others! And am excited!

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Selecting a single mobile payment service as the only way of paying tournament fees is a great idea. It doesn't have to be Venmo (#BuyTiltOnTheAppStore), but it might as well be.

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I really, REALLY enjoyed this set, even thought it had 10/10 too much history. Thanks for putting this together, VERY enjoyable :)

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Sigurd wrote:I'm sure Canada will be interested in having a mirror of this

I'm surprised Jay Misuk didn't break his neck running into this thread, but I feel confident in agreeing that there will be interest in Canada.

Also, welcome to the forums!

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This was definitely a lot of fun! Thanks for hosting, Penn, thanks to all the readers and scorekeepers and such.

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