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I will be starting graduate studies at Penn State this fall. I'm not sure how much I will be playing, but I look forward to joining Penn State's quizbowl community! I do expect to attend practices regularly, and I'm definitely interested in helping out the club through staffing or in any other capac...

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I have written a packet of 50 tossups on men's soccer. I wrote these over the past few weeks. Like my previous soccer packet , I didn't stick to a distribution, but I hope the questions will be accessible and enjoyable for both casual and fervent football fans! I think in general, the questions are...

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I have written a packet of 50 tossups on men's soccer. I wrote these over the past few weeks. Like my previous soccer packet , I didn't stick to a distribution, but I hope the questions will be accessible and enjoyable for both casual and fervent football fans! I think in general, the questions are ...

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Bollywood is an interesting case because it's a huge industry but is very underdiscussed in Western film criticism and therefore underrepresented in canons like TSPDT. (Ignoring Ray and Ghatak, who worked outside of the popular Bollywood tradition, there are only four Bollywood films on the current...

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I have written 53 tossups on men's soccer*; I'm calling the packet "2018 SERGiO RAMOS". I wrote these starting in autumn 2016 to now. The difficulty is pretty variable, and I didn't stick to any distribution at all, but I hope the questions will be accessible and enjoyable for casual and fervent fo...

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I have written 53 tossups on men's soccer*; I'm calling the packet "2018 SERGiO RAMOS". I wrote these starting in autumn 2016 to now. The difficulty is pretty variable, and I didn't stick to any distribution at all, but I hope the questions will be accessible and enjoyable for casual and fervent foo...

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Could I see the bonus on lift / angle of attack / camber? I think the wording on the last part made me think it was an angle for some reason.

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Well, the first day of classes at UMD is August 28th. So there's still a week and a half until classes begin.

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Thanks for writing/reading Eddie! This was really fun.

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Eddie wrote:
Doga (Dog Yoga) wrote:Will this packet be posted at some point ?
Good idea, but let me see if anyone's down for an IRC reading first.

I would definitely play an IRC reading.

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Go to mibbit.com and load up the client. On the drop-down list that says "Connect: Mibbit", select Slashnet instead. Type in a nick (your name, your forum username, something not stupid) and type "#quizbowl" into the space for the channel. Press the button that says "Connect." Ta da. You can regist...

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Hypersmart wrote:How does one take part in this?

Could someone please answer this? Having never used the quizbowl IRC before, I am also unsure how exactly this works.

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UMD is considering hosting an open Skype mirror of Terrapin XXIX on Saturday, January 7, 2017.
We'd like to gauge interest in this — please email " quizbowl [at] ophir [dot] li " by December 27, 2016 if you are interested in this tournament and whether you can or cannot make it on that day.

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This may not be worth fixing, but the pronouns could have been clearer and stated more frequently. I remember being super confused by pronouns for a handful of questions (e.g. Disney, mountains, rainbows, lightness, and text as a visual element). This might be tied to the creativity of answerlines ...

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Here’s all the South Asian content in the set: 2/5 RM (1/2 pure Hindu myth, 1/2 Hindu religion, 0/1 sikhism) 0/1 Lit (White Tiger bonus) 1/2 History (British Raj, Savitri Devi bonus, religion in the Mughal empire bonus) 1/0 Geography (Tamil Nadu - which was a bad idea, sorry) Overall, this was 4/8 q...

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This is the University of Maryland quizbowl team's announcement of the main site tournament for Terrapin XXIX . Location/Schedule : This tournament will take place on Saturday, November 19, 2016 in UMD’s own Jiménez Hall . We aim to begin at ~8:45 AM; registration will take place from 8:00 AM to 8:3...

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Do the Knox County schools even play quiz bowl anymore?? L&N is in downtown Knoxville, and yet Farragut and Cedar Springs (home school team) are the only schools representing Knox County. Unfortunately, quizbowl at Farragut is pretty much dead. The few guys who are interested only go to a few histo...

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Go for one of those "cheeky nandos" with "the lads"
there's one a short walk away that opened a few months ago

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I didn't encounter this error personally since it was in a lightning round that I didn't read, but other readers have told me that there was a part that referred to Genghis and Kublai sharing the " family name " "Khan", which is (to quote one of my friends) like saying Alfred the Great and Henry VII...

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I'm not sure if this would count as an erratum, but in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms bonus in packet 8, it's not entirely correct to describe Lu Xun the general and Lu Xun the author as having the same name, since their names are written with different characters and the tones on Lu are differe...

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Samaveda was intended to be the middle part and Purusha the hard part.

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I wrote the tossup on Hindu/Sikh gurus and these two bonuses:
Ravana / live in his stomach / Surya ; Samaveda / Rigveda / Purusha.
I would appreciate any feedback on these questions if anyone has any!

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This text’s core theme is that, in the context of samsara, it is most important for one to fulfill one’s dharma, so its central character should put aside concerns about slaughtering friends on the fields of Kurukshetra. I didn't get to hear this line in play, but I liked the way you phrased this l...

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Sorry if this is nitpicking, but in the tossup on Surya in packet 11, it says Kunti begot a son "with" Surya. This isn't true, since the main point in the story of the birth of Karna is that Kunti was given Karna by Surya (through her boon) without any procreation between Surya and Kunti. After she ...

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Could I see the tossups on the Geeta and Durga Pooja?

Also, thanks for writing this Will, I enjoyed playing it.

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I'm trying to start studying architecture, which is one of the few parts of fine arts that actually interests me. Does anyone have any study methods that are particularly effective for learning about architecture? (I haven't found flashcards to be effective for me, so if possible, I'd like some meth...

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If I remember correctly, in round 5 or so there was a tossup on a certain musical key that mentioned the Jupiter movement from Planets that explicitly mentioned that it was written by Holst. Then there was a bonus on Holst later in the set. Also, on the tossup on atheism, my moderator pronounced it ...

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I would also love to play this set.

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Both Kai Smith and I have graduated, so from Farragut: Daniel Yan, Yongyu Chen, Jimmy Terrell, Ronik Sheth, and Kevin Chen are returning.

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So I'm curious, who is actually hosting tournaments in East Tennessee, how many are there in a given year, and how many teams would you say are "active" in attending them? Are they good quizbowl (in particular, what sets are they being run on)? If I can get the quizbowl team at UTK up and running I...

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... For example, our quizbowl team got waitlisted at HSNCT and PACE this year for some reason. Although we made it in at HSNCT, we didn't get up getting to play at PACE. That sort of stuff usually is pretty discouraging for new players to quizbowl. One of the our players going to PACE this year was...

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Could I see the cricket bonus? I wasn't at HSNCT, so I just want to see what I missed :(

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I will be attending the University of Maryland at College Park.

I'm really excited about playing quiz bowl at UMD, so could someone from Maryland contact me sometime with any information about their quiz bowl program (or just anything regarding life at UMD)? Thanks.

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Hi all, I was just studying for French the other day, and the thought of quizbowl in foreign languages came to my mind. I think it would be a nice way of outreach if there were tournaments with packets in in major foreign languages such as French and Spanish that could be held internationally at sit...

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Could I please see the bonus on a certain Vedic god? I didn't catch the god's name. Also, I personally felt that the bonus that went Daksha/Chandra/Kama, even though I got all of them, was too difficult compared to the rest of the Hindu mythology in the set. I'm not sure what the "easy" part of that...

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EDIT: Wow, just realized how pretentious my original comment was, sorry about that.

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Could I see the tossup on decapitation? I think I negged at the Rati clue (which I think was first line) with "self-immolation;" I have never heard that Rati attempted to decapitate herself. It's usually held that she attempted self-immolation before a divine voice stopped her by telling her that Ka...

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Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:
Mewto55555 wrote:Chris Ray can't remember where he parked.
candy store?

Buzz & Negs?

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Lawrence Wang kept a hand on the Book of Mormon during the finals of Vandy 2013.

We won.

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Working on writing cricket packet right now.

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Would anyone be interested if I wrote a packet on cricket?

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I first-lined a tossup on Zimbabwe once because it mentioned a government official who had the same last name (Mpofu) as this cricketer: http://www.espncricinfo.com/usa/content ... 55633.html.

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I'm interested as well, but I don't have a Facebook account; is there any way that we can discuss this on the forums or elsewhere?

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Any rough idea of what specific days you will be g-bowling/skype-bowling? Or times?

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The third page of packet no. 8 is blank. Tossups 5 through 8 are missing.

EDIT: That's weird, now it works fine ...

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Hi everyone,

I wrote some questions as practice for PACE NSC. They are intended to be HSNCT/NSC difficulty.
Any advice on improvements will be gladly accepted.

Thanks!

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Is the TN '14-'15 thread going to be up anytime soon? It'd probably be better to discuss predictions and such on a new thread.

Split; in general, feel free to go ahead and create new threads in this kind of case --Mgmt.

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Ukonvasara wrote:
crash bandicoot wrote:Any rough estimate of when these packets will be published on quizbowlpackets.com?
Ahahaha. Alas, NAQT does not publicly post its packets.

Haha, I got the same answer from a friend (and a sarcastic laugh at my stupidity) 2 minutes after posting. Thanks anyway, Rob.

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Any rough estimate of when these packets will be published on quizbowlpackets.com?

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