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Another note of advice for anyone attending this: the 8th graders are taking the entrance exam on the same day, which means you'll have to be very careful about not potentially disrupting any of the testing. Walk directly to Lokey, which is the building directly adjacent to the large construction ar...

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More buzzers would be nice but we're fine currently.

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Putting 2 house teams would deprive us of necessary staffers, and we have no other tournament model that would let us have sufficient rounds, avoid staffing shortages, and fit within the necessary number of packets. However, we would be glad to add a second round robin to the lower bracket if packet...

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We have changed the building of this tournament from O'Donnell to the first floor of Lokey. Make sure to park in the lots and not in the street, and Lokey is the building with the glass facade the farthest away from the Hedding Street parking lots. We are planning currently to start this tournament ...

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Mike Bentley wrote:No SoCal teams are coming to this?

UCSD dropped out because they're hosting a high school tournament on the same day. Dwight can't come but he said he would ask his team. Other than that, I wouldn't know.

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I'll add onto what Abid said by noting that their interest in a subject must be organic for them to learn it effectively. There's a difference between memorizing the clues in a certain category out of necessity and actually consolidating your knowledge in said field for a unified understanding. It's...

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I would also like to register an open team for this event. So would this team be independent of any teams officially entered from Berkeley, which is to my understanding being arranged by Tanay? Also, Jeff, since you'll be helping to host the event, you can also take registrations. If you could get ...

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Salutations to all, On behalf of Berkeley and Bellarmine, I am pleased to announce a mirror of Chris Ray's BARGE set to be held at Bellarmine's campus on January 21. We are anticipating that the tournament will run from 9:30 to 5 at O'Donnell Hall, with registration starting at 8:30 (this is subject...

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I'm thirding Aidan here. There's this persistent myth that there's a vast gulf between what is desired by the "top teams" and what the new teams on the block are clamoring for. When you use buzzwords (so to speak) like "variety" and "appeal," you are obfuscating the poi...

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I can do 10/10, preferably history.

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Anyone still wanting to come to this tournament really needs to email cfleitas [NOSPAM] [AT] bcp [DOT] org

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One additional area I wish more hosts around the country consider is new team and novice tournament pricing. To help brand-new teams get over that initial barrier, you need to be willing to take a hit and have brand-new teams play at-cost (not just a $10 or $20 discount--make it as cheap as possibl...

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We will likely need to push Riviera Bowl back to the first Saturday in June, as 5/19 is smack in the middle of IB testing, which, Nolwenn tells me, something like 90% of the schools she's contacted in Europe have their students do. This will be confirmed asap. This schedule would pose a great risk ...

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Link to the tournament database: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/73/

i never see pigeons in wheeling

Ulster Clay Pigeon Shooting Association wrote:By the time this was posted, Jeopardy! would have been over where I lived. Does anyone on the West Coast plan on taping it perhaps?

My art history teacher plans to. I'm not sure whether that would be useful for you, though.

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The 19th is the confirmed date.

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We are pleased to announce that BELLarmine's Ingenious, Swaggerific Attempt to Run an Invitational Urkel Style (BELLISARIUS) will be held on November 19th on the Bellarmine campus. It will be using the 2011 Fall Novice Tournament set written by many experienced high school and college players around...

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I think most of my issues with this set have been previously explicated by others, but one thing I was puzzled by was the appearance of "House Mouse, Senate Mouse" in what was otherwise a legitimate polisci bonus.

i never see pigeons in wheeling

Also, we (Nikhil and I) will possibly be going to an art museum (probably deYoung or SF MOMA) for summer homework after the conclusion of this event on Sunday. If anyone is inclined to go with us, we can try and make arrangements.

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Also the Bob Loblaw Law Bowl?

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Myself and Nikhil will probably be going together along with (less probably) Sameer. If anyone else wants to tag along with us, you're most welcome to shoot an email to either myself ([email protected]) or Nikhil ([email protected]) and we'll see what we can do to accommodate you.

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Thanks for doing this again, Fred. I'll say that DCC will probably continue to be good. They lose all their "starters" from last year, but they tend to reload. Seven Lakes is probably going to be really good as well. They return all of the players from the team that finished 14th at NSC. ...

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Could you post the tossup on the Mahabharata from IS-105 as well as its conversion rate?

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And perhaps reduce the general knowledge distribution as well. I don't see a reason why NAQT should distinguish between "general" knowledge and other types of trash when making its distribution and should accordingly limit the trash distribution in its entirety.

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As much as he's going the wrong way in saying it, Tom has some good points. The school wouldn't cut the team (shiny trophies do provide some measure of protection), but the "Chip plagiarizes" argument is likely to be somewhat ineffective. First, there's no up-to-date resource with example...

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I emailed 4 different people at the Statesman in Austin to get them to do something for Kealing's MSNCT championship (and 1st, 4th and 5th place finishes for their 3 teams), but I got no responses at all. It's a shame really. That's a joke. I mean, we didn't have equivalent coverage here in Chicago...

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One thing NAQT/PACE really need to do is reach out to the media. Because Chip's organization is established, he ends up receiving far greater publicity in his NAC than the substantially larger HSNCT. One of the ways good quizbowl can be propagated is through the media, assuming a member of such an o...

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I'm more interested in the prospect of recording it rather than necessarily livecasting it (although that's cool as well) since not everyone can access the matches during the time when the feed is live. But if putting video in every room ends up driving costs up, then I will raise the same objection...

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A Vietnamese myth claims humanity came from one of these creatures mating with a fairy. The Japanese sea god Ryojin usually took this form, and Japan's imperial sword was found in the tail of one of these creatures. In Chinese myth four of them rule the directional seas, and in Norse myth (*) Nidho...

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In 1939, when the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to let Marian Anderson, an African American opera singer, perform in Constitution Hall, Eleanor resigned her membership in the DAR and arranged to hold the concert at the nearby Lincoln Memorial. One holder of this position arrang...

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A breather would be pretty nice, especially as far as West Coast teams are concerned. We end up flying across the nation for every national tournament, so travel fatigue can set in rather quickly. A larger break between the tournaments gives us a larger buffer for it to wear off.

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Mythology: The Illustrated Edition edited by C. Scott Littleton is an entertaining read that covers pretty much the entire high school myth canon. It's a large book (in terms of area and volume), but if you don't mind that aspect, it's a great way to equip yourself to get myth.

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If it isn't too much effort for you, could you repost it with standard packet format (i.e. the pages arranged in a linear downward fashion rather than spread out over multiple sheets on a single page)?

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I don't know where RM's team (or most any team around here, for that matter) would be if it weren't for It's Ac ANSWER: at real tournament s [accept playing actual quizbowl and equivalents] Actually, proponents of good quizbowl working for the local program Quiz Kids found a great way around this. ...

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Fred wrote:It's not a formula so much as "compare teams who played both an IS set and (insert set), find the difference in ppb, take the average, and then go to round numbers."

Well, that does count as some sort of a formula. It's certainly better than putting each set on the same level.

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I'm going to be working on fixing answer detection. Just a quick question, does anyone know of an ideal formula for determining the leaderboard ranking? Right now, it's (Average correct buzzes)/(# of correct buzzes) and whoever has the lower score is ranked higher. I was thinking that I should take...

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Will withdrawals be allowed?

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You. Are. Amazing. That is all.
I tried it early on in its development, and I knew that this would become my new default packet database when it was ready. And now that it is ready, it's exceeded my expectations.

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This didn't really pan out last year probably due to lack of organization, but I think it would be fun if the quizbowl community could get together and do something fun together. This could be before or after a side event, or it could be a thing of its own. Anyway, what does everyone think of a gat...

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And yes, I did feel stupid for a while in practice until I all of a sudden discovered that getting questions early was fun and I could do it more if I studied. It was very enthralling early in my quiz bowl career when I looked something up and then powered it in practice. What do you do with the ki...

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Your practices should have a relaxed environment to induce people to return. My school's very successful speech and debate team had a sort of off-putting regimented corporate discipline to it, and this is what made the quiz bowl team's laid back atmosphere all the more attractive. Studying material ...

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Definitely something that you won't waste much time studying for is poetry. The great thing about it is that it's really easy to gain real knowledge on it because it doesn't take much time to read and process poems (except for epics and extended ones like The Waste Land . However, poetry above anyth...

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I appreciate what Fred does and I'll continue to appreciate his rankings. He puts a lot of time and effort into this. This is the one reasons I don't like polls: Someone is always going to call foul because they feel they got shafted. Maybe that school isn't top 100 worthy in the first place, not t...

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I am also interested in writing for fall novice.

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I also prefer TinyChat since IRC sometimes fails on me. Generally, weekends in April are going to be busy for me with the exception of next weekend. We could try weekdays after school on the 3 weeks between the 11th and the 29th, but this is high pressure AP study time, so other people might have pr...

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My team is notorious for negging unnecessarily, so we try to emphasize avoiding negs rather than getting powers in non-high stakes games. Whether this ends up transpiring is another matter entirely.

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Depending on the amount of time I have over the coming days, I'll be glad to contribute as much as I can.

EDIT: I can write for pretty much any category except music theory.

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That's just because it was UAE on the website. When actually trying to spell it out, they put Emeritus. I would be shocked if they misspelled an acronym.

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VCU Open as well.

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And it makes for a good article too: http://www.benzinga.com/press-releases/10/12/b689996/bellarmine-college-prep-quiz-bowl-team-leads-globally I know some elderly former professors of Middle Eastern origin who get along pretty well. Do you think they might constitute the "United Arab Emeritus...

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