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Yah so this isn't going to be happening, the set is still going to be available, however. I might see if I can get it polished enough to run as an actual tournament next season or try and do a skype-tournament some time in the fall. Why is this not happening, and what is the set's completion percen...

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Yah so this isn't going to be happening, the set is still going to be available, however. I might see if I can get it polished enough to run as an actual tournament next season or try and do a skype-tournament some time in the fall. Why is this not happening, and what is the set's completion percen...

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Yah so this isn't going to be happening, the set is still going to be available, however. I might see if I can get it polished enough to run as an actual tournament next season or try and do a skype-tournament some time in the fall.

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I suppose for tournaments you can throw DCCAT 2 on there, which if I remember correctly, our coach mentioned about running in the fall. It's will now be written under the guidance of Connor Teevens and Ryan Dillon, both of whom are very good question writers, so it should be good this time around.

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Bobby's comments were pretty good, but I'll throw in my two cents about our team from the perspective of a person on it. The A team, like Bobby said, will be myself, Paul Hamilton, Brandon Roach, and Mark Karabajakian. Roach is Roach, no surprises there. Paul, if anyone, is going to be the most surp...

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Out of sheer curiosity, when/why did people start leaving the NAC? Did :chip: questions start getting bad? I guess what I'm trying to ask is why did people go to pyramidal and leave the NAC? This is kind of funny to me because basically CC was one of the first to leave NAC for HSNCT and NSC. We're ...

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Nobody is doubting that this was a well run tournament. I'm just saying you have to remember that many of these kids are paying out of pocket, and the 200+ for tournament admission, plus lodging, and plus food might be too much for people. I really wanted to go to this tournament, I simply couldn't ...

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Considering I'll have nothing to do around this time of the year, I'll come with a DCC contingent. If that doesn't work, I'd be willing to play with somebody else (I know history, especially ancient) or staff

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I second Andrew, but I also wonder--where were states (with active circuits) such as Michigan, Florida, South Carolina, Maryland, etc. Is it economics? In the case of Michigan, we fully planned on coming, but my team mates didn't have the money to pay for it. If facebook is correct, the kids from M...

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Out of sheer curiosity, when/why did people start leaving the NAC? Did :chip: questions start getting bad. I guess what I'm trying to ask is why did people go to pyramidal and leave the NAC. Though I did not experience this transition, I can say from experience of reading Chip packets from every ye...

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dtaylor4 wrote:Two weeks out, what's the latest?

Unless I get a sudden rush of interest, I'm probably going to have to move this to later this year, the set will be ready by the original date, however, so if anybody wants it I can give it to them.

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Is there an amtrak station that I could take to get into or near Ridgewood, or at least a place where I can get on the NJ transit?

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Out of sheer curiosity, when/why did people start leaving the NAC? Did

questions start getting bad? I guess what I'm trying to ask is why did people go to pyramidal and leave the NAC?

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For Friday and Saturday you can "express interest" in a team consisting of Myself, Connor Teevens, and other DCC people.

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As far as I know, For Friday I'll be playing with David Xu from Hunter, so I guess you can throw me with the rest of his team.

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The Eighth Viscount of Waaaah wrote:Word on the street is University of Detroit Jesuit.

Facebook agrees.

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Fred wrote:
something ambiguous wrote:Team Michigan will most likely be
Collin Parks (DCC)
Paul Hamilton (DCC)
Brandon Roach (DCC)
Mark Karabajakian (DCC0
Team Michigan should register if they are actually coming!

Financial troubles are preventing our attendance, so alas, we cannot. We hope to come next year.

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Black-throated Antshrike wrote:Quizbowlers actually carry around a magic bottle that they open up and sleep inside when traveling to distant lands.

I'm in high school. I usually stay in a hotel.

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Ridgewood's team members can provide accommodations to those looking to come in from farther afield. What do you mean by this? Presumably just what it says which is that people from Ridgewood can supply housing to people who have to stay the night in order to play this tournament. I guess I was jus...

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nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:Ridgewood's team members can provide accommodations to those looking to come in from farther afield.

What do you mean by this?

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Team Michigan will most likely be
Collin Parks (DCC)
Paul Hamilton (DCC)
Brandon Roach (DCC)
Mark Karabajakian (DCC0

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Will you guys be releasing a sample packet?

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Michigan will most likely be sending a team, I just need to confirm with one more person.

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I'm waiting on confirmation from one more kid. My application will be sent in soon.

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I have to agree with Adam on this one, the line was nominal, at best. Everything was by its own compromise when it came to slavery, so it's probably a bad bonus part. La Rochelle is alright for a hard part, maybe, because a quick skim of the wiki article for edict of Fontainebleau or Nantes will men...

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I can't do Thursday, I'll be sitting in a van on my way down to Georgia.

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For what it's worth, you can use the stats from wildcat and midwest championship under "Something Ambiguous" for DCC B. We were a man down also.

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Shout-out to two books that I used for ACF Nationals: Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin http://www.amazon.com/Byzantium-Surprising-Life-Medieval-Empire/dp/0691143692/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1337635753&sr=8-4 This was a cool survey book on Byzantine history....

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Yah what Adam said. My only complaint is that we lost to Loyola on a buzzer race on a super-stock clue in the first line of a tossup and the next game we got beaten on a tossup who's first line was a clue that's on one of the first pages of the frequency list.

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Our team had a fantastic experience at this tournament. The set was probably the best I have heard this year.

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I must say this was very well run, the biggest break we had between rounds was 5 minutes.

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AustinlSmith wrote:So, I have to ask; why did Idrees from Dunbar only play the first 5 games?

He had to go do Science Olumpiad or Science fair, which one, I don't remember.

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I sent you a message but I forgot to include my skype username which is sbfromcopley. Also, how are you going to pick teams between the people who signed up alone? Is it going to be completely random or are you going to try to split up teams evenly based on what you know about each player. I'm goin...

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Are stats going to be posted for this?

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I can help staff this

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So I really want to register for us for NASAT. Please, if you want to go, message me or Email me. Right now I have Myself Paul Hamilton from DCC (possibly) Sid Dogra from DCD Jimmy Haubert from DCC (possibly) So we need someone for science So Brandon Roach has confirmed with me, so we have a scienc...

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I'm changing th set up to 12 teams, as 20 was a little over zealous. Anyways, the field is a quarter full, so keep signing up!
Questions are coming along nicely, and I think I'll be able to play test the set after NSC.

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Charles Martel wrote:This is like the soviet union claiming that each constituent republic should get a UN seat.

Well two of my team members have multiple personality disorders, so can I cast votes for their personalities? That should give about 252 votes for Round Robin.

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Well add three to round robin for the people on something ambiguous then.

We strongly prefer the round robin option, if it's not clear.

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Is this set clear now that Waylon Jennings Memorial is done?

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So I really want to register for us for NASAT. Please, if you want to go, message me or Email me. Right now I have
Myself
Paul Hamilton from DCC (possibly)
Sid Dogra from DCD
Jimmy Haubert from DCC (possibly)

So we need someone for science

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The only reason I'm paying out of my own pocket to come as a scab team is to get a chance to play these good teams, so myself and the entire Something Ambiguous vote for round robin. If your intended goal is to play "good teams," presumably ones that are close to your team in skill level,...

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Mewto55555 wrote:So the last scheduled tournament on LIST II just happened -- if no one emails me wanting a mirror in the next week or so, I'll get the set posted online!

Is this still going to happen or is someone using the set?

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The only reason I'm paying out of my own pocket to come as a scab team is to get a chance to play these good teams, so myself and the entire Something Ambiguous vote for round robin.

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Looking at the teams and taking them out gives me more than nine. What's the field for tomorrow?

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Any changes in the field for tomorrow?

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I'm certainly not saying that questions should be unplayable! Questions should be written such that all teams can play on them without either 20 to 10 results or "dumbed down" content. If an IS set is too hard for half your field than it means IS sets need to be easier, not that we need t...

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But I do agree, even though I would not like it personally, the long term survival and growth of good quizbowl does require a drawback of difficulty. Otherwise you'll have teams just start to play

and KMO, which is not good at all.

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I'm certainly not saying that questions should be unplayable! Questions should be written such that all teams can play on them without either 20 to 10 results or "dumbed down" content. If an IS set is too hard for half your field than it means IS sets need to be easier, not that we need t...

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I agree with Matt here, dumbing down the questions so every team can get 20 ppb is not the answer, that'll just lead to a decrease in competition in the long run. What I have seen that has worked is having a novice set run at the same time as the regular set. For example, the Culver tournament had i...

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