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I generally thought the score clues in this set were really memorable and unique, but there were a few mistakes: the La Campanella tossup says D-flat instead of D-sharp, and Ophir pointed out to me that the Mendelssohn tossup has an F instead of F-sharp in the melody from the Reformation symphony. ...

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I think the criticism of hard parts is totally fair - in lit, I replaced 3-4 lit bonuses on hard authors shortly before the tournament, but realistically a couple more and maybe a tossup or two needed to go in favor of a few more safe, solid cuts at easy answers. The history also needed a few out-th...

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I can't find any sources for the claim that Pinot Noir cultivation began in Germany. Burgundy (in France) was active in winemaking by the 1300s, and some of their grapes were definitely Pinot Noir even back then. Maybe the clue was meant to imply that Lake Constance was the first site of Pinot Noir...

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A private discussion forum for this tournament has been created.

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Please find the packets that were played on Saturday in the attached ZIP file. We will be trying to use Editors 7-9 for events in the near future and will release those when we upload the set to the archive.

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Please use this thread to discuss, praise, and/or criticize specific questions and ask for clarifications. We'll be posting the packets that were played on Saturday (but not Tiebreakers or Editors 7-9). A few acknowledged mistakes in my categories: The Galatia tossup made confusing use of the word &...

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Once again, thank you all for playing 2021 Chicago Open! There are a ton of people to thank for making this tournament happen - please see the public acknowledgement post . Suffice to say, this set was a ton of work, but luckily there's a ton of awesome people in quizbowl who were willing and able t...

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Hi all, The editors of CO are hoping to host an online mirror of CO for people who did not manage to make it to the main site. Since the set is, well, rather hard, we think a tossup-only mirror is probably appropriate. Please vote in the date poll on this post to help us figure out when we should ho...

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Thank you all so much for playing this year's edition of Chicago Open! I know for many attendees, it was their first in-person quizbowl tournament in a long time; we hope the set made for a challenging and rigorous, also but fun and rewarding return to in-person play. While we wait for a discussion ...

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warum wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:03 pm I really enjoyed this tournament, both in terms of question content and organizational smoothness.
Will there be a discussion forum for it?

We've requested the creation of one, hopefully that will be up soon!

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Yeah, the material in Untimely Meditations was great to see come up and I don't think it's an unreasonable ask of players to know where those essays were from - but as posters above have noted, it's one of those instances where you're likely to have encountered the material elsewhere (in my case, ma...

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This was discussed at length in the Discord, but for those just on the forums: Don't ignore Itamar Naveh-Benjamin . He is at least the second-best eligible player in the country and arguably the best, with his Regs qualifier, WORKSHOP, and FLOpen stats being more than adequate proof of this IMO. Spe...

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A figure like Albert Hirschman is of fairly marginal importance to the field nowadays - I had actually never heard of him before (in my experience, his name is usually dropped from the Herfindahl index) and after looking up some of his work, it sounds very much like the sort of research from the 70...

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I had a great time playing this event. It was far from anything insane, had excellent length control for tossups and bonuses, and had a ton of both hilarious and explanatory clues that made each round a joy to play, even when we were getting our butts kicked by Florida and Illinois. The logistics we...

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Thanks for everyone for coming out today! Things ran smoothly and I think the draft format was a successful experiment. Good to touch an actual buzzer once again. Congratulations to "five-star google review of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory" (Jordan Brownstein, Jacob Augelli, Alana Dickey...

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The lecture hall is locked so we will meet in Skinner 1116. There are several people running late so we'll start at 9:15.

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We have 6 teams, so we'll do a simple double round robin, with finals as needed/desired by players. A logistics email has been sent out - please let me know if you haven't received it. Thanks!

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The editors of Chicago Open are interested in hosting several playtesting sessions, with the first one likely to be on the weekend of July 16th-18th. Please fill out this form if you would like to play some questions and give feedback to help improve the set! This will help us figure out scheduling....

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This tournament will be held at the Skinner Building at UMD, since we are guaranteed to have access to rooms there. Please arrive by 9AM. We'll be using the lecture hall in the basement to hold the opening meeting and draft (I'll post updates with room number once I get specifics).

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are captains/participants going to be announced before the event or only at the event Good question. I'm gonna maintain a field below for 7/10 (which is a Saturday, not a Sunday, as I incorrectly marked on the form) - if I've marked you out as a provisional captain and you don't want to be one, ple...

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We've got 21 people expressing interest so far, not including myself and a few folks I have reached out to. We will be able to secure 4 rooms for this event, meaning we can accommodate 8 teams - so I'm going to cap the field after 32 signups. The draft format will work as follows - a number of capta...

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thebluehawk1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 4:15 pm I filled out our registration before we had our fourth person. We now do have our fourth, how do I add him to the roster?

PM me and I'll fix it for ya

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As a further addendum: we plan to use a draft format . This means that captains will be selected before the event to draft teams when the event starts. The idea is to encourage balanced teams and playing with new teammates. Captains will be selected by the tournament organizer (me) based on skill an...

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I am thrilled by the interest in this event! Unfortunately, we can't accommodate everyone's preferred date, but for now we're going to plan for Saturday, July 10th . The current plan is to host this event at the University of Maryland, presuming that we can acquire accommodations. Please fill out th...

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Hi all, I'm trying to put together a DC-Maryland-Virginia mirror of NASAT in the next couple of weeks. Please fill out this form if you're interested in playing such a tournament. Attendees for this tournament must be vaccinated. I can't 100% confirm location at the moment, but it is likely that we ...

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Thanks to everyone who has submitted packets! We're speaking individually with teams who may need an extension.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:30 pm Do you anticipate a field cap at this tournament?

We'll check in with Northwestern about room availability on that issue. For now, all signups are welcome.

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Thanks everyone for voting! Based on the results of the polls and internal discussions about which dates work best for us, we will be hosting this tournament on August 21st . This was a difficult decision -- we understand this is not the option that got the most votes and that some players will not ...

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Hi all, We're extending the packet submission deadline by a little less than two weeks, to the morning of June 14th , though earlier submissions are still appreciated. Please send your packets to my email address - william [dot] t [dot] alston [at] gmail [dot] com and feel free to email if your team...

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Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 4:55 pm By when do you expect to finalize the tournament date?

Good point - we'll announce our decision on Tuesday morning. Get your votes in, folks!

EDIT: Updated to 6/1 announcement

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We have confirmed that we will be able to host this tournament at Northwestern in August. If this has changed your decision on whether or not to work on a packet, or you need a slight extension, please feel free to reach out to me. Otherwise, we look forward to receiving your fine submissions on Jun...

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Update: We have confirmed that we should be able to host at Northwestern on these dates. Please get your votes in!

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Hi all! Since it's a new year and peoples' plans may have changed, I figured it'd be best to have a new thread and spreadsheet for team formation. Players are encouraged to post here if looking for teammates and should list teams they have formed on this spreadsheet , including whether their current...

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meebles127 wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 10:56 pm I have no interest in playing this event but your poll is set up to only allow one option.

My bad, that's fixed now hopefully.

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We are excited to announce that we plan to host Chicago Open in person this year. The tentative plan is to host in Evanston as in 2018 and 2019, but this has yet to be confirmed and we will keep you updated regarding this. Non-Chicago-area options will be considered if necessary and we are open to o...

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I defer to Jakob Myers or others more well-read on this subject, but to my knowledge one of the issues we have here is that the primary source material is very limited in terms of what can be reasonably asked, while any attempts to foray into deeper historiography are doubtless going to fall outside...

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I believe in the video it says you can start your answer before being recognized. Not sure about the timing of it though. Hope that's right, if not, my b! We have elected not to use BuzzIn.Live’s timing feature at this time, but the discussion here has the other aspects right. The moderator must re...

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Thanks to ACF for putting this together and settling on a reasonable qualifier format. I think this tournament ultimately did its job and had a lot of interesting content that made it an enjoyable listening experience; it was also very well run and the moderators were superb. Most of this post is ab...

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Wanted to compliment NAQT on the quality of the instructional videos - they are excellent and very clear. I appreciate in particular the attention to the (frequent) negative issues stemming from connection problems and think the solution arrived at there was fair and reasonable.

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Hell why don't we also just refuse to like, call lightning bolts "objects" because real life lightning bolts are not objects even though in a Greek mythological sense they are treated as objects that are literally forged as this correct analysis realizes, this is 100% an object and it's a...

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wang, please submit a tossup on whales to CO with the identifier "these fish"

i will give a neg 20 to any science players who protest

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For the record, the editor responsible for the questions that were protested on in the last prelim round agreed with my denial of both protests. Greatly appreciate the clarity on this matter. For what it's worth, the comment about "it was wrong" refers to the playoffs round protest - I ch...

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I completely understand how losing on a denied protest may be frustrating; however, we had reached out to the editors to address a couple protests during the last prelim round, and we did not get a response within ~15-20 minutes, so we used our best judgment to deny both protests, and I decided not...

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This tournament was efficiently run and I encourage people to play this question set. Congratulations to OSU on winning. My information here may be incomplete or mistaken, but I heard that a resolution on a game-deciding protest was apparently made in-house by UMN, rather than by consulting the edit...

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After some community feedback, we've adjusted submissions. We'll take an unlimited number of them by the morning of June 1st. We've also increased the discount for a "solid" packet and clarified the criteria for an "excellent" packet.

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Forgot to mention, but you can just send all submissions to my email: william [dot] t [dot] alston [at] gmail [dot] com

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The Chicago Open editing team has been thrilled to hear that the community is interested in contributing questions to our tournament. As a consequence, we will be abandoning the plan to have no packet submission. We will instead have submission that: Best accommodates our tournament planning thus fa...

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I'm not sure where I'll be living during the foreseeable future after graduation and probably won't know for several months, but I do know that quizbowl will stick with me wherever I am; I plan on the converse as well.

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Not part of the HSNCT audience here, but I'm extremely baffled as to why the 2 second policy is being continued for online events, especially given that many NAQT moderators are extremely aggressive about negging you. It's very likely that Zoom - a platform which eats up a lot of bandwidth - will ca...

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100% agree with Emmett's position here. I get that online quizbowl is more tiring and less engaging than in-person quizbowl and that winning any sort of online tournament is just considered "not as good." I don't think this is a reason to cut corners on basics like providing a proper final...

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