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I've made a version of the script that the PAveMEnT team used to generate audio tossups publicly available in this repository . Instructions for cloning, setting up, and using the script are in the readme. Much of the credit for this is owed to Young Fenimore Lee and others who contributed their eff...

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Thanks to everyone who played! Stats have been posted.

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I would like to announce the online mirror of JORDU on Sunday, September 19 at 6:00 PM EST. It will cost $5 per player. The tournament will take place on Discord. Like the mirror at CO, this tournament will be run as doubles in a round robin format. The spreadsheet for team formation is here . Haras...

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Sorry for the delay on payment information. It cost $5 per player. Please send it by either Venmo or Paypal, which are vcpavao and vcpavao (at) gmail (dot) com respectively.

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I don't plan on setting up a forum for discussing this set, so if you play or read this and have any feedback feel free to DM me. I hope to use the feedback to edit this once more before the online mirror.

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Hi everyone, here's the team formation sheet for JORDU: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0

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Posting here because I’m gauging interest in playing JORDU after NASAT. One person has expressed interest and I would need at least 7 others to run it (2v2v2v2). If interested, please DM me (I don’t believe I can make a poll in the comments).

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Update: JORDU will take up the third side event slot at CO.

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Several people have asked me about JORDU recently so here's an update. The set is almost complete, and will be ready to play at events this summer. I am looking to have the first mirror the weekend of Chicago Open (August 21-22), and intend for the first mirror to be played as doubles. Here is a spr...

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Is any acronym team looking for a fourth player? I know music, some movies, some comedy and other pop culture stuff. I can be reached at [email protected].

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Interested.

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Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I missed Festivus this year due to unforeseen circumstances, but I plan on reading my packet tonight (12/22) at 9:30PM EST.

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I have a quick survey for people currently playing PAveMEnT on whether they'd be interested in buzzpoints being publicly released. If you are playing this tournament, please respond.

https://forms.gle/qdFgqTaAUBrFr2PA6

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Unfortunately, I don't have the buzz data for the second mirror, and I don't know if Noah's sent it out to anyone. If someone does have it, I could put it in this format pretty quickly.

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This is late, but I was talking with Isaac about different MARCATO buzzes as we prepare for PAveMEnT, and decided to import the csv of buzz data into Google Sheets, filtered it for just the correct answers, cleaned it up, and sorted it so that it's readable. Here's that sheet if anyone's interested....

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Hello! The writing team for PAveMEnT is looking for 3-4 people to playtest our set. We are looking for experienced players (college-aged and older) that are familiar with the styles of music in the set distribution. This will take place the weekend of November 20-22, preferably Sunday night. Please ...

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I really enjoyed playing this tournament. Clearly a lot of effort went into making this happen, and I thank Noah, John, and Wonyoung for all their hard work. Thanks especially for being responsive and attempting to work out a solution when I scheduled travel in the middle of the tournament.

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I want to preface this by thanking you for your hard work at making this tournament happen. I enjoyed most of the pop music questions, and really appreciate the diverse array of artists represented in the set. My main criticism of the pop music echoes what Ryan said. Many answerlines for pop music m...

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Are we able to see how we did against our opponent the previous day before moving on to play the next day's game?

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Rounds are spread over multiple days, one round per day.

Is there a tentative schedule for games? Or are we expected to have daily laptop access until the tournament is complete?

EDIT: I missed your post in the middle of the thread which answers my question.

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I don't have a particularly good ear to the ground in the "film world," but practically every time I listen, people are talking about the films of Jordan Peele—there are ways to ask about them that engage cinematography, themes, symbolism, etc. that I think are perfectly appropriate for a...

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This set will not be played until the next in-person open tournament where there is enough interest to play it, so at the earliest fall/winter of 2020. As of now, I'm not really interested in hosting an online mirror due to the amount of effort I'm putting into this and the ease of cheating on a sid...

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Could I see the Ben Webster bonus and Coltrane Tossup?

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Interested

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Can I see the question on Blue Velvet? Personal bias aside (it's one of my favorite movies) I recall the clues being obvious very early (the In Dreams scene) and I don't believe the guy who lipsyncs it is ever established as gay.

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The 10-11 lines is with Times 12 pt font and includes bracketed pronunciations. All tossups we have written so far are shorter than both the Django tossup from Fall Open and St Louis Blues from RULFO, so there shouldn't be an issue with question length.

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Update: I have adjusted the original post and marked major changes in underline, most notably more bop content.

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kingofcroutons wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:06 pm Are there any plans for a potential PACE mirror?

There are no definitive mirrors yet, but the set will most likely be ready by PACE NSC.

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Will Bordowitz and I are in the process of writing JORDU (Jazz is Often Rare and Disappointingly Unappreciated), a side event that will be ready by the summer of 2021 . This set's difficulty will be open -level. The intent behind this set is to expose interested players to jazz history and compositi...

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How did the Massachusetts geography tossup go at the Playtest? The clues within power are very difficult, but then right outside power (where it mentions Fall River and New Bedford) is really easy.

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Is the main site prepared to host all the teams that were planning on going to Columbia, in addition to everyone going to Maryland? I hope you're not going to cap the number of teams and have a bunch of interested players not able to play, after revoking this mirror.

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I think the Dadaist bonus is too easy and most teams will 30 it
I think the first clue for Notre Dame is too easy
I'll have more opinions once we get packet access

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Thanks for starting this discussion, Douglas. I also think the New England circuit is more competitive this year. There are several teams with clear potential to finish near the top at HSNCT and PACE NSC. I’m not sure if teams just plan on attending HSNCT like last year (Lexington was the only New E...

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The tossup on Max Roach could use the phrase "in homage to a similarly-named album" in the clue about Max Roach + 4 . If you, as I did, know about the existence of Sonny Rollins + 4 but not the Roach album, you get negged for having knowledge, which is not ideal. This is an especially pla...

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This set was very well done. It's very promising to see a team of newer writers be able to execute such a challenging, yet entertaining open-level set. While some open-level events can dissuade one with its difficulty, this event definitely made me want to look up the clues and answer lines I did no...

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Can you provide a little more info on the criteria for "20th century fine arts"? For example, could a composer like Mahler be included in the set? If so, would the questions be based on clues from his work after 1900, or could they span his entire career?

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Anyone traveling from the Boston area, I plan on driving to NYC that Friday night. Feel free to DM me if you would like to carpool or share a hotel, it would be great if we could lower everyone’s costs.

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High School Quiz Show has announced that October 20, 2019 will be Super Sunday this year. This will undoubtedly affect the participation of Massachusetts teams even if it's tangentially related to quiz bowl.

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username1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 6:02 pm Would definitely be interested in an online mirror of this.

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Looking to join a team, I'm sort of a generalist but definitely strongest in History, FA, and Social Science

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The "Ewig" clue for Gustav Mahler seems to be a bit of a stock clue, I must say (I saw it in either NASAT 2013 or 2014 and possibly one other set). Did not compete at PACE, just my two cents.

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Do you expect there to be a mirror in the Northeast?

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I'd be interested

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I agree with Jon in that it's not really worth doing anything about, but Victor's claims aren't entirely baseless - at the Bee, I experienced something similar with these buzzersystems.com buzzers . Basically, when one player continually presses the button before the buzzers are clear, the system r...

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(discussion split from this thread --mgmt.) This could have already been addressed (I haven't looked at every single post on this thread), and I'm not exactly sure this is the appropriate place to post this complaint, but I will post it anyway... I am glad teams volunteer buzzer systems to national...

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There is obviously no hurry, but I am just wondering why the stats from the West Regional are out, but those of East Regional haven't yet been tallied. Have they even been mailed yet?

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AMSA has incredible potential next year, but I would like to note that both A-B and Lexington have beaten AMSA more than once in history bowl and/or quiz bowl and AMSA lost to Sharon at the state championship. Both Lexington and A-B did not perform to their potential at nationals this year. It is tr...

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Oops, I'm messing up on all my years. Arjun is a Junior so they lose David. (facepalm)

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I'll post my full in-depth analysis on the 14th (was planning to do this but Mike beat me too it). But in my opinion Darien and AMSA are 1a and 1b (Darien beat AMSA twice by slim margins this year; however, AMSA got some new players who have improved the team a ton). Lexington is a step below them ...

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Lexington loses Arjun, their top history player, David, another geography/history player, and Reggie, their main lit player. They keep Colin, Duncan, and Devin - all three performed well at HSNCT. I expect that the team continues to perform well at tournaments. AMSA has a new player, Aniruddh, who w...

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