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I really enjoyed playing this tournament! The literature was some of the best I've ever played and was clearly written and edited with great care. In particular, I thought the American literature did a great job of probing the output of canonical authors like Faulkner and Vonnegut while also highlig...

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Minor note on the Morricone tossup: In a piece by this composer, the English horn, and later Edda Dell’Orso’s wordless soprano vocals, play a theme with the notes “short A, long C, short E, long C. Is this intended as a description of the opening of "The Ecstasy of Gold"? Bc that track op...

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I thought that the female late-20th century photographers bonus was super fun, but I hesitated a bunch over the second two parts because the first elided Goldin’s name in a way that suggested I would have to identify the artist of The Ballad of Sexual Dependenc y for the second part, and then that ...

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Here are the stats for this tournament: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7 ... /combined/. Texas A won the tournament, and Emmy Alme of Rice was the lead scorer.

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The date for this tournament has moved up one week to March 5th.

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I am pleased to announce that the University of Texas at Austin will be hosting the South Central mirror of 2022 WORKSHOP on Saturday, March 5th, 2022. The tournament will take place at an in-person location for now. I will update this post with the building once it gets confirmed. The opening meeti...

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Thanks to all the teams and staffers who helped make this tournament possible. Texas A cleared the field, winning both the overall and undergraduate titles. Texas B took second, while the undergraduate runner-up and overall third-place finisher was Amherst. Here is a link to the stats: https://hsqui...

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I am pleased to announce that the South Central site of 2022 ACF Regionals will be held at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, January 29, 2022. The tournament will take place online over Zoom. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 a.m. and gameplay will begin at 9:00. I, William Golden,...

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This tournament happened, with Texas A going 9-0 to win. A special thanks goes to Henry Castillo and Taylor Harvey for volunteering their time to staff, and Abdullah Akbar for driving from Dallas to make this tournament happen. Here is a link to the stats.

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I am pleased to announce that UT Austin will be hosting the South Central Mirror of Penn Bowl 2021 (Penn Bowl XXIX) on Saturday, October 30th, 2021. The tournament will take place at Burdine Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 and gameplay will begin at 9:00. I, William Golden, will be the ...

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I am pleased to announce that the South Central site of 2021 ACF Fall will be held at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, October 16, 2021. The tournament will take place at Burdine Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 and gameplay will begin at 9:00. I, William Golden, will be th...

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One per artist, grouped in tiers after the top two albums.

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The set has been uploaded to the archive.

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Also, bonus C.12 appeared to be primarily themed around rape in ancient Rome. To me this is a surprising and, honestly, dubious choice so I'm curious--what was the process that led to its inclusion? Was this a considered decision, or an oversight, or something else? The horrific treatment of actres...

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I am glad that people seemed to enjoy the "fresh" ideas and emphasis on underrepresented groups in the set. These were goals we consciously aimed for when editing. I enjoyed working with everyone on this set, but want to give a special shoutout to Nick Jensen, who was the MVP of this set (...

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This is the thread for general comments about 2020 ACF Winter. I am ecstatic more than 170 teams played the set! The goal was to have a mix of standard and creative content at a difficulty halfway between ACF Fall and ACF Regionals. Here is the category breakdown: Ganon Evans: World History, Other F...

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This is the thread to discuss specific questions from 2020 ACF Winter, which will be posted to the archive later this week.

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Post updated with every team that made the +$50 deadline. Teams still have until November 1st to submit a packet, although the penalty is an extra $10 a day starting from last Sunday. We're excited for you to play this set!

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American and world history playtesting is starting in just a few hours. If you are not in school and want to participate, send me a message.

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A reminder that the +$50 deadline is tomorrow (Sunday, October 25th).

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The wording in the Guantanamera bonus and kite running tossup has been adjusted. While not optimal, the mentions of Calvino in the Italy tossup in tiebreakers and the mathematics in European lit bonus do not overlap in question content.

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Playtesting for ACF Winter will start on Sunday, October 25th and last until Tuesday, November 3rd. Please message me on the forums or email me at winter@acf-quizbowl.com if you are interested in participating. I will reply to the interested parties with a private Discord link (I have lots of school...

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High school teams at high-school-only mirrors are exempt from the packet submission requirement. I have updated the original Winter announcement to reflect this. Sorry for any confusion!

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We have found hosts for the Midwest, Lower Mid-Atlantic, and United Kingdom sites. We are still searching for another east coast mirror and a high school mirror. I have also updated the list of teams that submitted by the +$25 deadline.

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Don't forget that the +$25 deadline is tomorrow (Sunday, October 18th) at 11:59 PST!

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The original post has been updated with a registration link , the list of sites, and the list of teams who submitted by the -$0 deadline. We are still looking for a Midwest site, two additional East Coast sites, a UK site, and a high school site. Registration and requesting a half-packet distributio...

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Looking at packet 11, this quote seems to be factually incorrect. In that novel set in one of these facilities, a half-Native American character who pretends to be deaf and dumb, Chief Bromden, chokes Nurse Ratched. I think it was Randle McMurphy who choked Nurse Ratched. Thanks for the catch! Alth...

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I've updated the list of submissions by the -$25 deadline. There are three days until the next deadline, which is at 11:59 PDT on Sunday, October 4th. The original post listed the three upcoming deadlines as being on Saturday night; I've adjusted it so that the deadlines are on Sundays.

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T-minus 24 hours until the extended -$25 deadline is over. Get those packets in!

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I don't have the packages, so I'll give my feedback based on what I can remember. I thought this tournament was well done, and that tossup difficulty in particular was very well calibrated. Answerlines were appropriate, varied, and interesting, and the tossups generally unfolded well. Will said the...

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The -$25 deadline has been extended to 11:59 PDT on Friday, September 25th. Please send your packets in, and make sure to request a distribution if you haven't already!

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Reminder that the -$25 deadline is at midnight Pacific time on September 20th. I've also updated the main post with a list of teams who submitted by the -$50 deadline. Please let me know if that information is inaccurate.

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I negged this at lightning obliterating a tree with Charlotte Bronte because I think that also happened in Jane Eyre. I don't think that clue was necessarily a problem (it's been clued before) but I think more context would be good. The tossup itself cliffs really quickly at Ingoldstadt so I think ...

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Thanks for the feedback everyone! Glad to hear the literature was well-liked in general. -The Bald Soprano tossup also got narrow really early, since I think the clue about it being on a double bill with The Lesson quickly clues you into Ionesco (that's a pretty qb famous title, I think) and from th...

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A reminder that the first packet submission deadline is tonight! Are there plans to have some kind of advanced stats at this tournament? For example, TangStats (https://gemeln.github.io/) was used successfully at the BLAST online high school mirror in April (https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.p...

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I don't want to pile on, but I agree with the posts above. There was as much 2010s content in 2-3 packets as there was content from any other decade throughout the whole set. If someone wasn't familiar with music from the last few years, then they wouldn't have been able to convert half of the pop q...

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Is it ACF's policy not to specify which editor is in charge of which categories? I assume that some people know who's doing what anyway, either from talking to the editors or by knowing their specialities, so it might as well be publicly announced. I'm happy to specify each editor's categories: Gan...

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This is the official announcement for 2020 ACF Winter, which will be held on November 7th, 2020 . (Note that this is two weeks earlier than the original date.) It will target a difficulty halfway between ACF Fall and ACF Regionals. The tournament will be head edited by me (William Golden) and subjec...

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Stairway to Heaven vs. Born to Run Stairway to Heaven may not be the best Led Zeppelin song, but it's not like Born to Run is the best Springsteen song either. EDIT: not trying to insult Fred's picks (these are obviously super popular and well-regarded songs for both artists), just a matter of pers...

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Stairway to Heaven vs. Wish You Were Here
Superstition vs. Born to Run

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Beast of Burden vs. Me and Bobby McGee
What’s Going On vs. Zombie
Midnight Train to Georgia vs. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Superstition vs. Jolene

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Dancing Queen vs. Smoke on the Water War Pigs vs. California Uber Alles Runnin’ with the Devil vs. Search and Destroy The Chain vs. Ballroom Blitz September vs. Is She Really Going Out with Him? Free Bird vs. Walk on the Wild Side American Pie vs. Marquee Moon Stairway to Heaven vs. Smiling Faces S...

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Scores from the first reading. Congrats to Nathaniel on the victory. Henry - 30 Rohith - 35 Jamie - 15 Connor - 25 Mazin - 25 Nathaniel - 45 Rudra - 15 Taylor - 15 Matt D. - 10 Alex M. - 10 Halle - 15 Vikshar - -5 A few people have told me they'd like to play the packet but were unable to make today...

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I wrote a packet about hip hop from 2007 to the present. It's 20-22 tossups long (depending on how much I end up writing for the last few questions), and the difficulty is hard. I will read it on the main discord channel at 8 p.m. central on Wednesday, April 22nd. If there's enough interest, I'll ho...

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Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Roxanne vs. Fooled Around and Fell in Love Lust For Life vs. Baker Street Marquee Moon vs. Let Your Love Flow Highway to Hell vs. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)...

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Congratulations to Runaway for its win (14-12) over Dancing on My Own, meaning it is unequivocally and definitively the greatest song released between 2010 and 2019. In all seriousness, I hope y'all enjoyed this bracket and discovered some new music. See you in the 2020s!

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City (14-12) Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids (17-9) Finals time! It will run until Thursday the 26th at 11:59 p.m. central . With your responses, I encourage you to write down ways you would have improved this bra...

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Results from the quarterfinals! None of these matches were particularly close. Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean (16-8) Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City (8-16) Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. A...

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Results! Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen (23-5) LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen (15-14) Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls (19-11) Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A....

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Apologies for the late post, I fell asleep before compiling the results. Here they are now. Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing (22-6) Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals (9-20) Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - A...

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