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yes please

(This also gives me an excuse to push back my own WIP geography set another few months!)

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Iamteehee wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:37 pm
tksaleija wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:34 pm I would definitely play this if able to staff HSNCT

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I'll try to put together a packet's worth of audio questions in lieu of TUPAC not being available. How many I'll actually get done is predicated on how quickly I finish up my CO questions.

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I'll be out of town starting on the 12th, so I'll only be able to make it on the 6th.

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Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce GEOCACHE ( Geo graphic C hallenge A ffair with C ontent H ard and E asy), the successor to 2017’s GEODUCK set. Like GEODUCK, this tournament will consist of 8 to 10 packets with 24 tossups each, and will aim for “regular-plus” difficulty, with a healthy mix o...

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I have a packet of 24 6-line geography questions I intended to use in an aborted GEODUCK sequel.

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Team "McMurdo on the Orient Express" (Jakob Myers et. al.) defeated Team "Geoduck Amuck" (Alex Schmidt et. al.) to win the online mirror! Stats will be posted soon. I will also be reading Packets 6, 7, and 8 in the Quizbowl Discord here at 8:00 PM EDT. This will happen at a later...

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I forgot to mention that, since I've converted most of the tossups in Packets 9 and 10 for use in different tournaments (including one I have yet to announce), I only have 8 packets to read for this mirror. As such, I'll be splitting everyone into 4 teams and run it as a double round-robin with a fi...

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Reminder that there's still time to sign up for the online mirror, and if you're free to staff on Sunday, please do so! A full logistics announcement will be coming shortly.

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I will be holding the online mirror of GEODUCK on Sunday, September 24 , on Discord, starting at 12:00 noon EDT . Once again, the entry fee will be $10/person. It would be best to hold off your payments until I get an issue concerning people unable to find my Venmo resolved. Here is the sign-up shee...

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I'm going to organize sign-up sheets for the online mirror soon. I'm aiming to hold this on either one of the weekends of the 23rd or the 30th. I will also need other staffers for this -- post here if you're interested in staffing. Considering that Discord is gaining favor among online mirrors, I'm ...

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For the remaining GEODUCK free agents: Try to form teams as soon as possible, as I will assign everyone to one of two teams otherwise. For anyone who volunteered to staff GEODUCK: Make sure to PM me on Facebook (preferably with a gmail address for Google Drive) or email me at [email protected].co...

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I would like to thank the fine folks at Berkeley and VCU for mirroring and playing this set. I hope you all enjoyed it! I'd like to have a private discussion forum for this set up in the next few days, as well as the logistics for an online Skype/Discord mirror (which will most likely happen toward ...

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Is the Geo limited to just "World" or can it include US/European content as well?

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This is currently 75% done. There will be 10 packets of 24 tossups only.

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Cheynem wrote:Last year, there were only four packets for this, so I guess I'll advocate if there is any interest in this tournament, people actually contribute packets.

Speaking of those packets, are those gonna be uploaded to the archive any time soon?

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The Petals of Blood/Ngugi/English bonus showed up in both Packets 5 and 8.

Also, did the tossup on Hamas really drop "rivaled by an organization led by Yasser Arafat" in power?

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I am pleased to announce GEODUCK ( Geo graphic D esigns of the U nusual and C onventional K inds), a tossup-only tournament dealing with all things geography. All questions will be written by me, Kenji Shimizu, over an even spread of both natural/physical and human geography. Many of these questions...

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:3 Geo/Ce/Mixed/Other Ac

wooooo

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Are detailed stats for this going to be released? http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3977/stats/combined_stats_%28%2Bfinals%29/ what he's referring to is more advanced stats that ccount for where people buzzed in a tu/stats by answerline Yeah, there were apparently stats for those being recor...

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Could I see the tossup on the Great Leap Forward? It seemed really obvious to me from the start, but held off buzzing until "sparrows" was said.

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Is the lack of Current Events intentional?

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CPiGuy wrote:I've written a packet of 15 tossups on Polandball -- if people are interested in playing this send me a PM and I'll try to figure out a time to read it over Skype or Google Hangouts.

Also, the questions are almost all 10 lines long or longer.

Count me in.

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Code: Select all

PHILIPPINES PACKET
mik -5
pat 15
tejas 35
foos -5
naveed 45
"chipbeall" -10
ophir 15
magin -5
rob 10
harris -5
hidehiro -5
eric 15

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POKEMON PACKET
harris -30
tejas 35
rob 75
jasper 105
ophir 10
eddie 50
eric -5

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I think having a spreadsheet for signups would be nice, since it allows everyone to see who the free agents are.

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I hope to have the Pokémon packet done by then. It should be 20 tossups on mostly stuff from the video games. This won't be happening. I apologize, but I have been busy with finals and now writing some academic questions. I hope to have some Pokémon questions done for a Summer Open or something lik...

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When are we going to get info about logistics for this if we're planning on reading packets? Usually there's a Google Doc set up on the morning of the tournament where people enter their names/packet themes depending on when they want to read. After that we just go down the list. EDIT: Also, I chan...

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CPiGuy wrote:I don't see it on the archive...

It usually takes a while for them to show up after they're uploaded.

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I'll have either an "Internet content" or a Philippines-themed packet by Festivus since I don't feel like reading two packets this time.

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I'm thinking of writing a new Pokémon packet after the new games come out. It's probably going to be tossup only and will hopefully be done by Festivus. How many people would be interested? I know that there has been Pokémon packets before but is the demand sufficient? I am writing a ton of academi...

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Sweet!

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Could I see the Trump TU? I certainly wasn't expecting that and was a bit hesitant to buzz (though I still did) at the clue describing the sculptures demolished at Trump Tower New York. I'm a bit curious how you filled up the rest of the tossup. Also, people at the Michigan site seemed to agree that...

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Hello Michigan-bound friends-- I'll have a 20+ tossup vanity music packet to read at some point during the weekend. I was planning on just reading it in the hotel for Eliza, Andrew, and some luckless Illinois youngsters, but the cancellation of BURI means that there might be time to read this to ot...

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Can I see the tossups on "getting rocked" and "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"? I want to see where the first one was heading (We Will Rock You?) and where the second's power ended.

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Have you received a packet from Chris Borglum et. al. yet? Dylan says he submitted it days ago.

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Xochicuicatl Cuecuechtli wrote:Is this set clear? Will it be posted?

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Any plans for this yet? The IRC is here; just copy-paste clues into the chat one-at-a-time, and wait around 5-10 seconds in between giving clues. Make sure to call on the first person to type "buzz"; if they type "wd" they withdraw and can buzz again later (generally).

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I first learned about Ocracoke Island because of a Wheel of Fortune contestant from there. She also talked about its weird dialect. Another one I just remembered: I first heard about Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand in my first-year engineering class. It was in the context of finger implants that ...

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Will this be read on the IRC at some point?

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I'd just like to say that there was never a "subtype of dating sim" tossup at MLK

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I can play this. I know music, random internet things, and scattered tidbits from the rest of the categories.

Wynaut · Re: MYSTERIUM - Skype Mirror - 5/7/16 I'm interested in playing this.

I'm interested in playing this.

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If anyone found an iPhone charger in any of the Bossanova rooms (or 2448), it's probably mine. If whoever found it (assuming someone did) could return it to me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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The geography was really enjoyable and well-clued; a lot of the leadins and hard parts definitely sounded like they were worth knowing about. I also certainly wasn't expecting a whole tossup on Iqaluit! The one exception that comes to mind is the Chad bonus that pretty much relied on knowing its hig...

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Unless I'm mistaken, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso is one of the most famous violin showpieces in the repertoire, and it's placement was a tad early. This also happened in DI. The Motown tossup also had similar issues (dropping Holland-Dozier-Holland AND Hitsville USA in power, even though the...

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Is there any word on whether or not we're still sticking to Chris Ray's proposed schedule of side events? I'm interested in playing Eyes and COTTAGE Bowl.

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Okay, as the obvious target of this post (since no recent tournament, at least, in my memory, had Tossup 0s except MFT, and since I wrote some of the offending tossups -- Auroni and I were the only people who wrote Tossup 0s for MLK), I'll put in a few words. Yeah, you're better off just skipping it...

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I'm no lit expert, but the tossups on The Road and Les Miserables felt incredibly easy to power to me. EDIT: Oh yeah, and the Kerouac tossup title-dropped Visions of Cody way too early. Could I also see the tossup on Micronesia, please? I want to look at the clues from before the namedrop of the fou...

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Two tossups (Chinese rail and Manchukuo) mention the Lytton report, although I don't think mentioning one will instantly give away the other.

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Since I forgot to indicate this on the team roster sheet, all of Michigan B is UG, and Efosa and Priya are DII.

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