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Robin,

In case Rob didn't mention, I will be up there to read for the TBS as well as the high school tournament the day before.

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Hello, After a rousing round robin both Chipola soloed by Dallin and FSU, who utilized the quaint (so, quaint) practice of using aliases finished 9-1, after a one game final Dallin beat FSU 260-60. The top three scorers were as Chris mentioned, Dallin, David Flowers (also known as John Terry, PSYCH!...

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Provided I am invited to staff HSNCT, I would like to offer my STAFFING services for this fine tournament...

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There have been a number of changes to the field, we still have room, so if you are interested, we would love to have you!

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I think by and large they ought to be regulated to the Philosophy section, possibly a "science history" section if such a category were to develop. However, there are some scientists who have written important works in these categories, like Pierre Duhem (safely within the science canon, I...

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As per instructions: GOTCHA! But if the mechanics are in essence unchanged (the protest was resolved at the end of the game, as it mattered), why have the rule at all? (Not a rhetorical question) Moreover, there is something of a flavor difference between the usual kind of protest and this one, righ...

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If you think inserting fake buzzwords favors newer players, you're doubly wrong in a way that is suspiciously useful to your style of play. What's this, inferring a possible hidden motivation from a plausible internet argument, for SHAME Michaelangelo! But seriously, I am a bit confused by some of ...

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Ah that is right, The Unnamed...difficulty is such an irksome thing to pin down. I think in general that the practice of establishing difficulty is often an arbitrage between quizbowl notability and curricular/academic concerns. For example I think there was a bonus about Russian playwrights, where ...

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The other main issue I had was with bonus difficulty variability. Not to start nit-picking questions, but I feel there's a really big gap in lit between ("Vikram Seth"\"The Golden Gate"\"Li Po") and three parts on some Italian author who I don't think I'd heard of befo...

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This is tournament was excellent in many, many respects. So, instead of performing the customary, "It's pretty good...these tossups sucked," I will devote some precious time to explaining what I liked about this tournament, and how I would like to see tournaments progress. The Morgan Spurl...

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I know we can't talk about the questions yet, but I wanted to congratulate the editors for a really, really good set of questions. It was a delight to play.

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Just got home, while there were some logistical issues, I am glad this happened, despite OMG SNOW. Furman is a beautiful campus! More later after some much needed sleep. Thanks of course to Bryn and Eric for reading, Ben Cole for keeping stats, and Nathan James...well for just being Nathan James!

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As much as I love tifton japanese quisine, it would be really awesome if this did not get cancelled. We will continue driving until we become aware of the final decision. I can be reached at 8133007654

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You know guys, just a few hours south there is a mirror at Valencia CC, hosted by USF! Florida is beautiful this time of year, and I am certainly willing to offer travel discounts.

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I express interest as well. If playing is not halal for me, I will do whatever.

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The field has been updated. Other Four year and CC teams in the Southeast should also feel free to come: UF, FSU, UGA...I am looking at you!

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Aww..thanks! I love you too, man!

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...if you came to a Sun 'n' Fun or some other USF sponsored tournament, you would receive gift cards in the $50-75 dollar range... I was actually considering coming down to Sun 'n' Fun anyway as a summer trip, but this certainly makes things more interesting. Are these gift cards awards for team pl...

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I'd also like to thank Robin and the NGCSU staff for running an excellent tournament. I, too, thought the gift certificates were a brilliant idea. You know, Aaron, if you came to a Sun 'n' Fun or some other USF sponsored tournament, you would receive gift cards in the $50-75 dollar range. I am sure...

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I am not quite ready to engage generally the panoply of comments on the SCT, suffice it to say that while my knowledge base (as fragmented and woefully insufficient as it is) always makes NAQT a difficult proposition, I did enjoy vast swaths of the tournament. I know generally the purpose of discuss...

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Hello, I just wanted to commend NGCSU and Robin for running a pretty smooth tournament, things went really well after lunch, and I thought the 3-way tie was handled quickly and without too much fuss. The moderators overall in DI were quite good, I don't think any round I played went under 20, and mo...

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SnookerUSF = Ahmad Ragab
played at NGSU site

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I, like Wes, will likely be playing solo for USF. I, unlike Wes, can provide one buzzer.

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Location and Timing Valencia Community College on March 6th, 2010. As per our usual issue, USF will be hosting the tournament (that is, please make payment out to "Quizbowl at USF" though it will be graciously hosted by Valencia CC) Who can play this tournament? Individuals who have not a...

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I think given the situation, the half-bracket solution was a reasonable one, and fell solidly within the guidelines of ACF. I have spoken off-line with UGA, but to offer some suggestions that Jerry can provide to hosts: 1. Encourage TDs to limit House teams to newer, less experienced players, so tha...

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Post continued... Some ancillary issues: So, when we had the packets e-mailed to us round-by-round at the UGA mirror (in docx and doc format), there were a few formatting issues that made reading difficult at first, issues that are not present in the archived copy of the questions. Initially, there ...

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It was great to see the level of competitiveness at the UGA mirror, a lot of very good teams played on some very good questions. I will make a few comments: I thought the tournament was focused on providing good (accessible) middle clues, rather than three lines of lead-in and two lines of giveaway....

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Picking up steam! Last round of the prelims mere minutes away, and it is only 4pm...

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Round 4 is about start it is currently 12:25...

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I am expressing interest in attending ACF Winter mirror in UGA. I should probably mention that, as well as finish my packet here pretty soon.

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There was something in the early days of my quizbowl experience that I would like to more about: it was called the Philly Experiment. IIRC, there were more than one of these, and they were in the summer, and were apparently difficult. Can someone shed light?

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Fair enough, so make those dudes a hard part. The point Chris is making, I think, is not that none of those dudes should have come up, but that a bonus entirely of them isn't the way to go. I agree with that. I guess I like to have my medicine all at once, if I know its good for me. I guess that's ...

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This helps ground me for next year: I have no doubt that I unnecessarily allowed myself to worry that with mirrors at non-CC sites, I should allow more rigor in the bonuses. But next year I'd rather err on the side of having 25% of the teams around or above 20 ppb rather than concern myself with an...

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But in an era where fewer and fewer tournaments suffer from true systemic flaws, I'm afraid that being bogged down in details about specific tossups may be the only future that quizbowl discussion has. THUNDER has given us a temporary respite from this "problem" but with increasingly wide...

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TheLessFamousEthan wrote:http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

Stats from the Bevill Mirror

Broken link is broken...

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If this is still happening, and FSU is still going, USF (well, me representing USF) will be accompanying my fellow Floridians to Tulane. I hope there is some kind of single-player team discount (hint, hint).

SnookerUSF · Re: THUNDER @ Valencia Community College (10/24/09) Playoff Stats here.

Playoff Stats here.

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Hello, I want to thank everyone that came and played or helped officiate the tournament. I also want to thank Lena Phelps for all her hard work in "manning" the HQ and entering stats. I still have the playoff rounds to enter; however, I will post Preliminary Round Stats here . The top two ...

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The University of South Florida will be hosting a mirror of THUNDER, a tournament written by Trygve Meade, George Stevens, and Eric Mukherjee, on October 24, 2009 at Valencia Community College in Orlando. It has been announced as a regular difficulty tournament, and no one has to write a packet for ...

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...how quizbowl is a pisspoor substitute for actual learning and thus doesn't change its legitimacy at all (since it is always none) by being made as frivolous as possible. Obviously, this attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy. While Ryan isn't exactly saying the same thing, he is sort of going do...

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The Midnight Rider wrote:Yeah, how could I forget that guy. At best, he'll beat you in quizbowl, and at worst he will pull an 18-wheeler with his teeth like he's DSF 76.

Best Compliment EVER!!!

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I disagree with this. I think that rather what drives a lot of this behavior is up-and-coming players trying to puff themselves up to gain approval from the older, more established players. That, coupled with the Fundamental Difficulty Error, drives a lot of this griping; I don't think that believi...

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...within the constraints of technically being a game - the whole part about having rules and using a buzzer. Yeah, this is the crucial thing for me. This notion of "technicality" is what perplexes me. Quizbowl isn't technically a game, it is a game...a game with rules, and buzzers and po...

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A question that simply asks about PCR or about the plot of Middlemarch will still present a huge advantage to graduate students who spend their time doing PCR or reading Eliot criticism, because you can't do a PCR or criticize Middlemarch without having extensive knowledge of how PCR works or havin...

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The title of this post comes from, most recently, a post made by Eric Mukherjee in the "name bias in science" thread. I was a bit taken aback by it, not because I haven't heard it before, but because it was asserted so unconditionally and self-evidently. What I think it is intended to impl...

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So, Forgive my ignorance or misjudgment, but could it have been some kind of "meta-clue" regarding the inclusion of the length of time regarding the Clock Symphony. That is to suggest that including the length of time it takes to perform is some kind of clue about the theme of what is bein...

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There is exactly one answer to that question: a enormous high-stakes game of Ulama on the Midway Plaisance. But really, I am inclined to agree with Ryan that CO is the premier national open event of the year, and perhaps the editing team ought to be decided with this in mind. So the head editor and ...

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I will happily offer my services.

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Oh Man! So, this is related to something in the other thread about relative difficulty: do we have any metric, method, heuristic (I will even take a rule of thumb at this point) of comparing the relative difficulty of adiabatic demagnetization and Henry Cowell (assuming that both tossups were writte...

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Hello, No one is going to think less of you if you write a solid tossup on Ficciones instead of Don Segundo Sombra. Yeah, I don't know about this. What will inevitably happen is someone will equivocate on the "solidness" of the tossup rather than its ease, suggesting that while a particula...

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