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I agree with a lot of posters that it's important to explain to new players the substantial opportunity cost of a wrong buzz during a question when your teammates might still have been able to get it. However, I think negs might not actually do a good job of this. They probably cause a lot of newer ...

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We played all 8 rounds of GOLBEZ Saturday night. Drew, Simone and Meghan also played the early rounds, but only Steve, Luka and Erik stuck it out deep into the evening. Their final stats from 8 rounds: Steve: 90.6 (19/48/8) Luka: 40.0 (9/22/7) Erik: 29.4 (9/14/12) (Also got a final boss question for...

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The University of Toronto will be hosting a mirror of Super ACRONYM on Saturday, August 17th, followed by several side events that evening and the following day. SUPER Acronym is a rather difficult trash tournament, and the event will be open to all people, who may play on teams of any sort. The sid...

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The University of Toronto will be hosting a mirror of the 2019 H.S.N.C.T. set on the weekend of June 22nd - 23rd, 2019. This is a high school nationals-level tournament, comparable in difficulty to A.C.F. Fall but written in the N.A.Q.T. style. This tournament will take place on the firs...

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Just a gentle reminder that, if participation from Western Canada in this summer's batch of "Canadian circuit" tournaments is indeed a goal, then those dates should be picked sooner rather than later. It's also my understanding that there are usually travel subsidies offered to teams fro...

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Congratulations to Toronto C on their victory! Full stats can be found here:

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5622/

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The University of Toronto will be hosting the Canadian mirror of PIANO on Sunday, March 10th, 2019. This is an open, regular-plus(between Regionals and Nationals)-difficulty tournament; more information about it can be found in the global announcement . This will be the day after our Saturday mirror...

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The University of Toronto will be hosting the Canadian mirror of Terrapin on Saturday, March 9th, 2019. This is a closed, regular-minus-(similar to E.F.T.)-difficulty tournament; more information about it can be found in the global announcement . On the Sunday following the tournament, we will be ho...

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I liked this tournament a lot. I agree with Joe Su, who said at my site that it wasn't quite as good as last year's because, in aiming to be easier, it wound up with less consistent difficulty, resulting in occasional drops of easy clues suspiciously early that people weren't sure if they should buz...

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Here are the stats for the Sunday movie side events. Overall standings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jd-hm4BoYsCtEqxwIm2l-NAGOsYXRCzHZpEIKWwpev8/edit?usp=sharing Top room scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FGUNvMzyM1QJIMO8dPacSaM3-jhAr4tJnvw4LG65Ipc/edit?usp=sharing Bottom ro...

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On Sunday, January 27th, the day after our mirror of ACF Regionals , the University of Toronto will be mirroring the second John Daly Memorial Tournament. More information on the tournament can be found at the global announcement . Logistics The tournament will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, January ...

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The Canadian site of ACF Regionals will take place at the University of Toronto on Saturday, January 26th, 2019. More information about the tournament can be found in the global announcement . On the Sunday following the tournament, we will be hosting a mirror of John Daly 2 . Logistics The tourname...

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Hello, all banterers. This is the logistics post for tomorrow. The tournament will be held at Sidney Smith Hall, on the west side of St. George Street slightly south of Harbord, about a 5-minute walk south from St. George subway station. 2127 (on the second floor) will be the control room. The tourn...

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Hi,everyone! This is the logistics post for tomorrow's tournament. The tournament will be held at Sidney Smith Hall, on the west side of St. George Street slightly south of Harbord, about a 5-minute walk south from St. George subway station. The tournament will begin at 10:00 a.m. sharp. Arrive by 9...

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1. Aaron Dos Remedios As he's moved, according to several people (himself included), "past his prime", Aaron's point totals haven't really fallen, but he's had to neg more to stay at that level. Hybrid in particular was a ridiculous negfest for both him and Rein - yet Aaron still top-scor...

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Jordan hasn't played any tournaments in about 3 years (aside from one VETO that he played with his dad). Derek is indeed excellent and probably quite underrated.

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EDIT: We have raised the field cap to 12 teams and extended the registration deadline back to midnight on Sunday/Monday night.

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The University of Toronto will be hosting No Banter, Please, a trash tournament written by a set of Canadians including the author of this post, on Sunday, November 4th, 2018, the day after our mirror of ACF Fall . More information about No Banter, Please can be found in the global announcement . Lo...

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The University of Toronto is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of ACF Fall on Saturday, November 3rd, 2018. More information about the tournament can be found in the global announcement . On the Sunday following the tournament, we will be hosting No Banter, Please , a Canadian-wri...

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Toronto has requested to host Fall, and while ACF responded positively to this, we've been emailing for a few weeks with no final confirmation. Twice now, I've sent an email that hasn't gotten a response for over a week. I'd like to know how much we'll be paying and get final confirmation that we wi...

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The University of Toronto is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of SUNGOD on Saturday, November 17th, 2018. This is a closed, regular-difficulty tournament; more information can be found in the global announcement . On the Sunday following the tournament, we will be hosting several...

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Hello, Canada! The summer has come to an end, and as promised, that means it's time for this year's trash player poll. Tournaments that have happened since the last poll are listed below, with links to the stats. Super ACRONYM 2017: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4393/ OHIP Trash 2018: http://...

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My preferred geographical history distribution includes 1/1 Continental Europe and 1/1 Anglosphere. This would fit Canada, Australia and New Zealand neatly into the Anglosphere category, along with both Canada's neighbour and former colonial master. American history only gets 1/1 of the distribution...

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I wanted to align CO, an emblem of the very highest level of quizbowl, with the conversations that have been taking place throughout this year about how to make the game more inclusive a significant chunk of the arts being devoted to art from non-Western countries I don't know enough about literatu...

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Hello teams, Thank you for attending Toronto’s mirror of HSNCT! We hope you have a great time. Logistics information follows: LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION This tournament will take place both days in Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George Street). For those who have never been, it’s the building with an e...

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Thanks to everyone for your quick and helpful replies. We've decided to go with the Cambridge Open for the June 9th/10th weekend, since it seemed more ready at this moment (we've talked to Ewan and made it official). However, we may also be interested in mirroring the Oxford Open later this summer, ...

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Hello! Over the past couple of months, the Canadian circuit has been trying to set our summer tournament schedule. We've been hoping to host a mirror of either this year's Oxford Open or Cambridge Open, since they have not yet been played in Canada. However, we have been completely unable to get in ...

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The results are in! Thank you to all of our voters across the three different ballots: Austen Friesacher, Henry Atkins, Chris Sims, Joe Su, Meghan Torchia, Dennis Beeby, Adam Swift, Jack van Nostrand, Erik Christensen, Raymond Chen, Daniel and me. ACADEMIC 1. Derek So (275; eleven 1s) 2. Rein Otsaso...

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1. Derek So Other people will have better things to say aboit him; all I can really add is that he beat me to multiple history tossups this year despite history not even being one of his two main categories. 2. Rein Otsason Rein's move from engineering science to a specialised graduate program stun...

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Another private ballot in, this one from Erik.

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The rookie ballot was pretty tough to settle on, since lots of these players only played a few tournaments and they were often hard to compare directly. Canada had a really deep crop of rookies this year, though, and hopefully all of these (and many other good ones!) stick around. 1. Kevin Lei This ...

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Dennis has sent me his player, rookie and staffer ballots. Five more days to get yours in!

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I think it's very strange that the best Japanese baseball player in the world is tearing up MLB right now but Japan's league has come up with rules to exclude him from its MVP race. "Canadian Quizbowl" is a community. It consists of the schools and players who... play quizbowl in Canada. R...

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Remember to account for both prelims and round robins at a number of the tournaments (like CO or ICT), some people are sleepy in the morning, but pull a Frampton in the afternoon and vice versa!

Very solid advice! Please especially heed this in the case of both Toronto teams at this year's ICT.

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It is not directly intended to replace MUT/EMT/SMT, since it should be appropriate for teams of all skill levels. The intent of having the tournament be at EFT difficulty is to appeal to a broader possible audience (high school teams looking to prepare for nationals). What's the reason to have it a...

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Yeah, we are a bit behind in the writing but we do plan to at least have a packet or two written by June.

Do you plan on writing all 10 packets eventually, or will the tournament be shorter?

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It's that time of year again! The Canadian Player Poll returns for its third year running, with a few changes this time around. Eligibility will still be limited to all those who have played at least 2 tournaments on the Central Canadian circuit since May 1st, 2017, and who do not attend schools tha...

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As an E.F.T.-difficulty set available in March, is this tournament meant to replace the usual March Undergraduate Tournament on the schedule? If so, will it also be undergrad-only?

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Hey, are there any updates on this? I'd be super excited for it if it's still happening.

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I'll be working New York at this time and would love to play this event and maybe run FTP 3 on the second day

We'd be glad to have you run F.T.P. 3, but I think it would have to be on Saturday evening, as people from outside of Toronto will be travelling home on Sunday evening.

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McGill: http://www.btmontreal.ca/videos/mcgill- ... n-chicago/

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Has this set been Americanised and prepared for North American mirroring? If not, would it be possible to mirror the original version of the set?

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There is interest in Canada for a mirror of the set this summer. Would it be available for that?

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will be available until at least June

Will this stop being available after June?

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I'm going to hop in here to defend the unpopular side and say that I don't like powers in general. I think the reward for knowing tossups earlier is beating more teams to them. That's kind of the central, basic tenet of pyramidal tossups, and powers arbitrarily mess with it. Consequently, I don't li...

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How much non-American politics do you expect will be in the set? And will it general be related to America and Trump (i.e. his foreign policy dealings with those countries) or on their own politics?

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I'm not sure if this year's MUT set is clear yet, so I won't post the question. But tossup 2 from pack 14 (Finals 1) was really terrific. I didn't know most of the clues and only got it for 10, but looking over them afterwards, they were really interesting and significant things about a fascinating ...

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To further what Erik and Ted said, as a history player, one of my biggest concerns/things I don't like about quizbowl today is the overwhelming westernnes of history, where 75% of the category comes from a narrow sliver of the world. I don't know enough about other categories to comment on them, but...

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In my two years playing collegiately, I've thought the fall schedule seems fine for pretty much everyone. If you're a complete novice, then you have novice/fall/eft/delta burke in some places For sure, I don't think this is a major problem. But while it's true that those tournaments exist "in ...

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I've never understood why ACF Fall comes after EFT. Both are tournaments that we market mainly to the younger members of our club, and it would be a much more natural progression for them to go from Novice to Fall and then to peak in difficulty at EFT, rather than going from Novice way up and then b...

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