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Why is it that "if you played ACF Winter, you can probably play this tournament" when Winter, like recent EFTs, had no formal or informal eligibility restrictions and was played by a lot of very good players, while the stated difficulty comparisons, PACE NSC and ILLIAC, are respectively a ...

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Voting has finished. Thank you to the eleven voters in this poll for making these rankings possible: Leo Law, Jonathen Settle, Ryan Humphrey, Bradley McLain, Daniel Hothem, Emmett Laurie, Ryan Rosenberg, Alston Boyd, Rudra Rangnathan, Kai Smith, and Rahul Keyal. The results are as follows: #1: Colum...

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The deadline for this passed last night but I, uh, forgot about that, and I won't have a good chance to finish the calculations and post the results until tomorrow I think, so I am extending the deadline for ballots until midnight Pacific Time tonight (9/26) . If you wanted to vote in this poll but ...

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A reminder that the deadline for voting in this poll is one week away. I know that there was some discussion about rankings in the Discord earlier this week, but if people want to share their thoughts in this thread that may both be edifying and help more people solidify their thoughts for the poll.

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The is the announcement for the preseason poll for collegiate teams (the extent to which it is actually "pre" season is debatable since some closed collegiate events have already happened but whatever). Please do not post ballots in this thread, but email them to eb.[email protected].net by the...

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Sorry if this is said somewhere that I am once again not seeing, but do the editors of this set intend to make online mirrors play using video for players (eg via Zoom or Discord video) to discourage cheating?

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Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that Columbia was doing anything wrong; I just thought that it would be desirable for the LIT editors to put in the LIT global announcement that exemptions from the geographical restrictions are available and will be granted for good reasons so that everybody knows that ...

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According to the spreadsheet, Columbia has registered a team for this tournament despite the fact that New York is not one of the states included in the first post of this thread or in the Mid-Atlantic region on the overall LIT announcement. I don't much care whether they play this mirror or the Nor...

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According to conversations in the Quizbowl Discord, the editing team for this has refused to let Joe reveal their identities, which is an extremely concerning sign regarding the likely quality of these sets.

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To clarify something from your previous post from March, will people who graduated from one school in the Spring but who are now enrolled somewhere else for the fall be required to play for their old school rather than their new one?

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I think one of the options ACF presented in the poll they sent out to teams would be to have regional prelimsat some point in the spring followed by a playoff bracket the day before Nats 21. Relative to what Mike proposed, this would at least give teams who qualified this year and who would be inter...

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Since you're explicitly putting physical chemistry in with physics, will biochemistry/"bio-y" chemistry be placed in the biology distribution (ie where it isn't crowding out "core chemistry" in the reduced chemistry distribution)?

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I'd guess that if this is true it's because of the greater breadth of askable topics in college math combined with the ladder place of mathematics in college distributions, especially compared to state formats like VHSL Scholastic Bowl. Math questions in college can more easily ask about relatively ...

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I'll be starting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. If time allows I hope to keep playing.

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I think in the last match of ACF Nationals 2018, Delaware was playing in the bottom bracket, and one of the last tossups was asking for "this event" in a way that, to my ably frauding ears, really sounded like the assassination of someone from early Islamic history. The most obvious answer...

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In light of the two physical mirrors of this set that have been cancelled, I hope that this set's editors organize or allow others to organize an online mirror.

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(This post is not directed at Emily in particular. It’s also pretty cranky.) Can we stop obsessing and mythologizing over this crap? All of the good stories have been told a zillion times by now, and you can read the anecdotes off of an overlong/injoke-y QBWiki page. There are so many other good qu...

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When the staffer recruitment form asks if you're "comfortable" reading or staffing a room by yourself does that just mean "Are you familiar and proficient enough with quizbowl to do this" or is a target time limit per round implied, and if so what would you want?

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In 2017, Penn applied for and was denied a wildcard bid for ICT, despite the fact that Eric Mukherjee was unable to make it to SCT but obviously would have qualified if he had been able to play. This made many in the community believe that it was completely impossible to have a wildcard bid for ICT ...

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hosting national tournaments on the west coast is a bad idea because then it will be substantially more expensive to get there for the majority of teams, which are not on the west coast.

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My memory of playing in high school (mostly in NYC+New Jersey and Boston-area events) is that being given five seconds to answer tossups was typical, even on IS-sets.

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Is Washington taking their host bid in DII (which is the situation that would obviate this)? I assumed that they'd take it in DI since they have DII-ineligible players. In any event that doesn't change the central issue here, which is something that's going to keep happening as long as there are the...

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I figure it behooves me to necro this thread since it seems likely that this situation will happen again. The combined-field Northwest SCT site was won by Washington B, a DII team, but since the only other DII teams at that site were all from Boise State there were only DII teams from two schools, t...

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In the US, the more academic style of Quiz Bowl was supplemented in the late 1990s by Trash tournaments Makes sense to me. I could imagine that it's more like the broader/British quizzing community diverged from academic quizbowl at that time due to the development of more modern/pyramidal question...

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Could a field update be provided? Thanks.

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The tossup on auroras (which generally described them as "this phenomenon") had a sentence that I remember saying something to the effect of "Homer used the phrase 'rosy-fingered' to describe a god whose Roman equivalent names these phenomena." This seems like a not insubstantial...

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Are there any plans for a collegiate mirror of this set in the Northeast/upper Mid-Atlantic (the NYU mirror being high-school-only, which one might also regard as a questionable decision but nevermind that)?

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Also, is there a rationale behind the very small philosophy/social science distribution? I don't mean to defend any of the other decisions being made in this distribution, but 1/1 combined Philosophy+SS is almost certainly a good upper bound for regular difficulty HS sets and is present in nearly e...

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I'd like to play CO for the first time this year but am not actually good at anything. I probably have the closest thing to specialist knowledge in bio and chem but knowing random stuff in other categories will likely make up most of my few tossup conversions.

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Is there any update on the progress of this set or plans for mirror sites?

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From Packet L, Tossup 8 ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa (“YO-suh”) [or Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa ] From Packet O, Bonus 16 ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [prompt on García ] Similarly, I recall that in the past I've been prompted if I said "Márquez" for Gabriel García Márquez. Why are thes...

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The Krebs cycle tossup probably should have accepted _tricarboxylic acid cycle_ or _TCA cycle_.

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As long as small fractions of the interested parties in this tournament are making requests for when it should happen, February 15 is fine for me but if it were changed I would prefer it get moved earlier into January than later.

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I believe is also contrary to the half-packet distributions we were assigned for Regionals, which I recall included something to the effect of “European/Canadian/Australian History.”

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jinah wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:31 am If a team wishes to outsource part of its packet to a player not expected to play on that team (e.g. a student who has graduated), it must first receive approval from the head editor.

What is the rationale for this?

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I suppose I can't blame you if this is the only day you could reserve rooms, or if you did so before knowing that Maryland's EFT mirror would be the same day, but it would be reasonable to assume that this could lead to relatively few teams attending this tournament. Also, as I've noted for the last...

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:47 pm Mid-Atlantic: Maryland?

To be clear, does this mean that a Maryland mirror is not yet confirmed, or that it is confirmed but the date has not yet been? In either case, is there an idea of when details regarding it will be confirmed?

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Yeah, both of those sets of arguments are reasonable. Thanks!

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Split from Parsing Answerlines thread - Mgmt. At the risk both of iconoclasm and derailing this thread, surely the simplest significant quality-of-life improvement to be made in quizbowl packets would be to put bonuses between tossups and have the bonuses associated with dead tossups be skipped; th...

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wow your so good at literature

edit so this doesn't get FZ'd: I strongly believe that you and whoever you're getting anecdotal information from overestimate how much Chinese poetry most high school quizbowlers know.

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Will this be open? Do you have an idea of the general date (eg this summer, this fall, next summer)? How much of this has already been written?

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In any kind of studying, it's best to be practicing on questions harder than you're usually going to be playing; that way you'll be seeing clues that appear at the beginnings of tossups or in the hard parts of bonuses more frequently as they're used as middle clues and middle parts at harder difficu...

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The Billiards Fool wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 8:23 pm Eric Wolfsberg

Vote for Emmett for nicest person, but don’t vote for me in this poll. I can’t scale worth

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:55 pm I've only seen him play once and he went 0/0/1, but my gut tells me Jack Mehr should definitely be ranked in the literature poll and probably in the overall poll.

I played with Jack at PIANO; can confirm that he is very good both at lit and in general.

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Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without l...

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Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm 2/2 Euterpe - music (1/1 Classical, .75/.75 “other,” and .25/.25 whimsical)

To be perfectly clear, does "classical" here mean western art music, or music from classical antiquity (I'm assuming the former)?

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This was the best reg+ set I have ever played. If you’re implying that this set was too easy, then, uh, have you considered the possibility that you’re very good at quizbowl, because I think a lot of other people would disagree strongly with that. My apologies if by reg+ you merely mean “harder tha...

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Various people have expressed concern over a seeming lack of non-computer science math in this set. Would it be feasible to post a list of the questions in this set considered math and computer science so it can be determined if this was the case? Despite this issue (which I don’t actually care abou...

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What determines whether an UG or D2 finals game will need to be played? Also, is there are a list of teams that will be UG or D2-eligible; the A-value spreadsheet may not be accurate to the rosters teams are bringing to Nationals.

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I would assume that the change in the tiebreaker policy is because having fewer tiebreaks reduces the likelihood that any one of them will take overly long and slow the tournament down. I know that last year Delaware was involved in a tiebreaker determining if teams would go into the bottom or secon...

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