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I see your point. I'll write a different pitch emphasizing stability and professionalism of question providers when I get to a computer later today. Yea sadly this seems like one of those situations where you have to have a pitch that appeals to the administrators or whoever's in charge as opposed ...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:22 pm Is Wang forgetting 2016, in which the original editors had to scale back and a group of intrepid souls, including myself, was entrusted with CO?

it was so traumatizing that I've wiped it from my memory

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Hey guys, The community has had the luxury of having teams ready and willing to write CO before the previous CO was over the last few years, but it appears that we're in a situation we haven't had to deal with since 2012 or 2013 . Is anyone willing and/or able to work on 2020 CO? I'm pretty much inc...

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Packet 7 Bonus 8: HASTE imaging utilizes this process, which produces images in which the CSF is much brighter than those produced by its counterpart. For 10 points each: [10] Name this process that uses a longer repetition time and time to echo, but not as long as FLAIR. ANSWER: T2-weighting [acce...

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I feel like the haem TU would have benefitted from a directed prompt on the various types of haemoprotein - whilst using the identifier “this complex” is not incorrect, the binding of the haemoprotein to the haem cofactor is essentially forming a complex itself, which caused a bit of confusion. Pig...

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Hey, not to try to criticize this project before it happens, but aren’t you the kid we had to repeatedly tell not to try running an online event on recycled NHBB questions?

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Are printed copies of "a good accounting tossup" written by a Mr. Charles Martin Jr. acceptable as prizes?

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These all seem like really tame answers to be honest to the point that I'm almost confounded as to why someone would have to be able to justify them as answerlines even in a set on the easier side

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MLaudermith wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:12 am Have stats from Earlybird been posted yet?

mostly on neg5 here

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I can only assume in this situation that #25 is a hirschianwhiever you want goes here!”
It’s prerty shocking to me in that regards that Chicago A is only 25th

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Chris Ray I think deserves more accolades as a film player, although his knowledge seems more towards the trashier end of the film spectrum. - Un Cheyne Andalou: This was by far one of my favorite quizbowl experiences of all time. Between matches at KABO, Chris Ray approached me and said "Hey ...

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Hey, I don't want to sound dismissive, but isn't that the premise of this link?

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That Tyndall question would have probably been great if it was like... other ac. Was a bit upset to have played the Bletchley Park tu - seemed like a game of chicken on "this facility where people are... solving problems?" Set was fun - difficulty control very noted, had nice "Chris R...

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John Ketzkorn wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:55 am
DumbJaques wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:37 am Please make every effort to pay me at some point tomorrow. I will not be accepting cash.
Given that this is the case, is there anyone willing to do cash -> venmo this year?

Willing to do this for a usurious transaction fee

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A question for local Evanston/Chicago folks: Friday night I'll be interested in hitting a local brewpub or two. It looks like Sketchbook is definitely interesting, and maybe Smylie Brothers and Temperance (the last of which looks to be further away?). Are those good calls, and if not, other suggest...

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A question for local Evanston/Chicago folks: Friday night I'll be interested in hitting a local brewpub or two. It looks like Sketchbook is definitely interesting, and maybe Smylie Brothers and Temperance (the last of which looks to be further away?). Are those good calls, and if not, other suggest...

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I am by no means an elite player, but I have done quite a bit of studying over the years, and have never used nor seen the appeal of flashcards. I take bulleted pencil-and-paper notes on the harder details of everything I study, and I don't understand how flashcards could be more helpful for me. Is...

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Thank you John for the write-up! In addition, according to the Cambridge Open stats , the team 3 Four Men In A Boat (John Lawrence, Andrew Wang, Jakob Myers [4 games played, due to transportation] and Mike Sorice [2 games played, due to injury]) cleared the field, defeating Chandrew Smith (Chris Ra...

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Max Schindler has some useful insight here

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Many thanks to the folks at Illinois for running an excellent Side Event Weekend--for being so accommodating about packing in so many events, for keeping everything moving at a good pace, and for helping to staff all of the events. Further results/stats from various events will trickle in over the ...

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This set was super fun and people should play it!

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Top 5 for minus-fives: molting electron pairs calcite tangent function mercury (the element, with early clues about mining history) Would you be able to post the conversion stats and text of the electron pairs question? I distinctly remember at least one clue that pointed to electrons just as equal...

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ansonberns wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:01 am Could I see both the text and the stats for the tossup on Richard Cory

This is the only Richard Cory text you'll ever need

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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. So I think the point of concern here is that it is likely that the majority of quiz...

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I'd love to score -7.5 ppg at this

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wait, this wasn't legitimate?!

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In early music, the function of these musical elements was performed by passages consisting of a sixth expanding by step in contrary motion to an octave, called a clausula vera ("CLOW-soo-lie VAIR-eye"). Two consecutive dissonances, usually at an interval of a major or minor second, exemp...

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The major example of these proteins in eukaryotes is composed of T-complex protein-1. Unlike most members of the CLP family, ClpB is one of these proteins. A conserved example of these proteins is composed of two interlacing heptamer rings capped by a heptamer "lid" that opens upon ATP hy...

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Question: if someone attended the all-star game but wanted to "come to" the discord to listen, say, just to see how other people do on the pack and because it was a good time, would that be allowed? As a mod of the QB discord: stuff like this is totally fine! on the other hand calling it ...

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I enjoyed reading the set! Can I see the spectrogram/larynx/nose bonus (bonus 9 in I think round 14)? This is very much in my real-life field so I was excited to encounter it. However I remember the "larynx" part saying something about how spectrograms aren't used to analyze voicing in fa...

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I'd like to commend Coach Malecki for his commitment to ignoring community input and continuously churning out set after set in spite of repeatedly being told its existence is a net negative to the community. Kudos to you!

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QuizBro wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 11:02 pm Does anyone have any advice for helping things stick? Short question but need some advice.

Repetition is key to remembering things. Whether that's done by regularly studying topics you miss questions on, practicing a lot, or with flashcards

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Will ART NOUVEAU contain packets or will it just consist of the "pack" s?

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vinteuil wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 4:27 pm at my place (near the campus of the Harvard of Central Connecticut)

Why do you live so close to Wesleyan? it's like half an hour from new haven

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My sources lead me to believe that wolfram poh of Ucla 30d a bunch of science bonuses at nats And should be consideration for your science ballot so

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Am I allowed to name less than 25 people? I cannot name 25 Canadian quizbowl players

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Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:01 pm In the absence of any stats on this, I declare us the champions.

The classic "modern world" strategy

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Tim Morrison is the best math player (sorry Samir and Naomi, you're a close second/third) and also the best film player. His generalist skills can't be doubted either, leading a Chicago B team to top-of-second bracket finishes at both nationals. I would like to ditto tim morrison stanning if you ha...

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also me wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:29 pm Will happily sit through this tournament, get mediocre buzzes and try my best to not neg stupidly, if you'll have me

Except I'll probably also neg stupidly

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Books to Learn https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T4b8g_qTGsO_8ExU8Z_C4nzjDsw7jXr21lDOn2SBS3g/edit?usp=sharing :O music https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T4b8g_qTGsO_8ExU8Z_C4nzjDsw7jXr21lDOn2SBS3g/edit?usp=sharing :O :O EDIT: Kai's rec is good. EDIT: Since I send this out so much, I have decide...

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This seems like a difficult exercise since there's like a hs level trashtournament a year and maybe a total of 50 tus in the regular season

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You're right, sorry we didn't do our due diligence by consulting with a panel of white guys who are extremely into Asian culture. I thought the point of quizbowl was to reward you for being interested in learning about lots of cultures, and that the entire point of this tournament was to try to rep...

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A few important answerline related notes that I wanted to mention: 1) Please include Cantonese answers in tossups on Chinese mythology . I used moderator discretion at this tournament to accept a Cantonese variant of "Nezha" pronounced with an "L," as a lot of younger speakers o...

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A few important answerline related notes that I wanted to mention: 1) Please include Cantonese answers in tossups on Chinese mythology . I used moderator discretion at this tournament to accept a Cantonese variant of "Nezha" pronounced with an "L," as a lot of younger speakers o...

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I think Alex's effort here provides a critical question of what to do with these esoteric categories of music, science, and social science - categories that are relatively inaccessible to the generalist compared to literature, history, and visual art. The ability of someone who's taken a survey of ...

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I think some decrease in physics and a corresponding increase in math would be a good idea in the "standard distribution" for that housewrites & companies use for the high school level. (The problem is only more pronounced in middle school.) As a middle school (and elementary!) writer...

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I'd like to apologize for letting a little too much of the chemistry be "shit I like", I tried to balance this out with some (hopefully) "fresher" tus on basic answerlines. Additionally it was pretty sloppy of me to not realize that I had a pretty hose-y leadin on the alkenes tu ...

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pragmatically it's because nobody has announced a set having 1/1 math before and/or done it well enough to indicate we should continue to?

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Seems like there's a big group for a July mirror, but I'm assuming if I asked people to settle on one weekend those votes would be split. I'm currently leaning towards August 17th-18th to have a buffer after CO. This has the benefit of giving writers more time to polish their sets and not accidenta...

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