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Zach Foster and I are planning on playing together. Looking for people who know things.

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Needs more pudsoscience, but this is awesome. Hopefully not too scary.

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Why not a Thanksgiving Guys? Spend your post-turkey plans remembering Mike Williams or Mike Williams or Mike Williams.

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I would greatly support using Buzzin or The Buzzman as well for the same reasons that Tejas describes.

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I posted this in Discord already, but my thoughts on this letter: -The two main points the letter is asking for, i.e. appointing another admin (or admins) and producing a clear ruleset for the moderators to follow, are very good and should be implemented. I would guess that almost like 99% of people...

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The Judge question was amusing since we were playing the round using The Judge. I liked that question better than the one on Chad Kubicek, although the latter was also amusing (but probably shouldn't have been in the finals).

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I do not know the full sentence, so maybe this clarifies, but I buzzed on the Petticoat Junction tossup on the clue about "Sam Drucker's store" being a frequent setting. That also applies to the spinoff show, Green Acres.

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When I was the treasurer of PACE, I got a check for several thousand dollars from a high school that had entered the NSC the year before and was working with an energy contractor named PACE. We worked it out easily, and I did not suggest that PACE change its name. Let's just say it moved David...to...

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As a team which I think was literally the median team at CO, it seemed like all of the aforementioned history questions went like to the end, dead, or buzzer race near the end. That doesn't inherently mean much--I can't say any of us had deep history knowledge of the topics in question. In many case...

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I'm looking for teammates. I don't know anything about words, though, aside from the ones you can't say on television.

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Eric Mukherjee and I are looking for teammates.

Erik Christensen has joined us. Perhaps someone else named Mike can join us.

EDIT: "Mik"e Larsen has joined us.

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Yeah, those were good questions, and it was certainly good to see some comic strip and non-Western comic content coming up. But I do think a few more "traditional" American comic books could come up--even a few of those bonuses veered more into non-straight comics content. I don't recall i...

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I'm glad Tim mentioned the general prose. I chuckled a lot, in a good way, hearing these questions, which I thought made for an entertaining experience. One last thing is that the randomization occasionally could have used some work. One round had two questions referencing 1990s WCW pay-per-views (I...

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I very much enjoyed this tournament. One of the nice things about such a tournament is that each question (generally) has a very clear purpose or theme but is also somewhat unpredictable. At easier tournaments like ACRONYM, you can probably predict half of the answerlines and topics going in, but no...

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I thought the protest process occasionally took too long in the sense of especially in rooms that only had one staffer, that staffer had to stop reading and fill out a protest form in the middle of a game. In most cases, the protest made no difference, and in most cases, the teams didn't really need...

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I share Matt Jackson's confusion about the information avoidance question. I mentioned in the other thread that I don't think "description acceptable" is very helpful here. (I've also never heard of any the clues, so maybe there's something I'm missing.) Maybe you avoided learning the clu...

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I didn't find the last chapter of The Age of Innocence tossup to be that confusing, although you probably could have just done a tossup on The Age of Innocence that only clued the last chapter.

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So the pandemic and my own illness (followed my, uh, laziness) halted production of this, but I'm now working and hope to be finished by the end of August. Now the question is what to do--is there some fall open that could run this as a side event (seems like there's a lot of other, better side even...

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Yeah, I'll have more to say when I see the set, but it felt like in particular bonus parts could get very verbose (which meant that the occasional very succinct part stood out!). Paul has an interesting point about a two-day CO. For weekends in which there isn't a full length tournament on Sunday, y...

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This was a good set, fun experience, and well-run tournament (the moderators I had were probably the best I've ever had at a Chicago Open). I do think that we played too many games. We basically played from 8:30 to 11 PM and more if you were in the finals. That's a LOT of quizbowl and certainly bang...

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Thanks for a very enjoyable tournament. I like trash tournaments that have a distinctive feel, and this certainly did, and it was also fun answering questions on topics that will probably never come up anywhere else.

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I think without weighing into the "are masks good" argument, I'd just say that it probably makes more sense to keep an extant policy than change things. I would imagine almost 0 people who weren't going to go to CO because of the policy now will go, but I can think of several people who, w...

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To be clear, I wasn't saying the recommended policy was "fine," I was saying that fundamentally you're requiring masks or not, "recommended" is basically "not."

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I do not particularly care if CO has a masks policy or not, but I would basically say that the current policy is equivalent to "no masks."

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Rob usually needs someone to *post* stats.

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Has this set been posted?

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Going to bump this...is there nobody interested (or able) to run any sort of side event open or whatever? I can certainly understand if hosting is a pain in the butt, but it kind of sucks that there was/will be an east coast and a west coast summer open but not a midwestern one so far.

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I am looking for a teammate who knows something about musical theater post-1960.

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Maybe the field is full, but I feel like you would have gotten more teams if not on CO weekend.

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What kinds of answer lines are in this tournament? Be specific.

In seriousness, I would like perhaps an updated field list? I registered my team some time ago and really never heard any confirmation.

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I have mixed feelings tossing up such a thing--it's a culturally important thing (as a book, film, and TV show!), but I doubt there's a lot of knowledge in the field that needs gradating. Might have been better as a bonus part. Cool idea, though.

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Yeah, I agree--good, well-run tournament.

Shout out to McDonald's, as I played better after eating takeout.

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From what I can tell, Owen is a very good tournament director who has run good, strong events. In an ideal world, I would advise Owen to work within existing organizations and circuits to promote good quizbowl and run events. Perhaps that could include continuing to run online tournaments in the sam...

Cheynem · Re: CO Trash 2022 (August 7, 2022, Evanston) What about Ryan Wittman?

What about Ryan Wittman?

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Are there any plans for Midwest opens/summer tournaments? I'm not sure what schools could host or what the policies for hosting are, but ideally you could get a host of players. NASAT or Ottawa Hybrid would make a good main event tournament, and presumably there are a number of side events on the do...

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They're waiting to announce packet submission plans.

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Shourjo.Ganguli wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:03 pm May I see the Godot tossup?

Afraid you've got to do some...

WAITING

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Yeah, it wasn't there when I was reading.

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Atlashill wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 10:11 am *raises hand sheepishly*

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.

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eygotem wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 11:39 pm This oxygen-carrying protein found in red blood cells, for 10 points name.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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A poem, an author from this people wrote. “Song of the Flight”, it is often translated as. A collection of “ballads of the lords”, it is included in. Someone, an author imagines, who “in our basement, lived, and my parents, sacrificed”, in a 2012 poetry collection about her meth-addicted brother. [...

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Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

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Halinaxus wrote: ↑Wed May 18, 2022 5:27 pm At some point I might try to write some myself

Do or do not. There is no try.

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With the delays in announcing things, is this tournament now run by Dan Puma?

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When the deadline states "by Saturday," does that mean the packet needs to be in by 12:01 AM Saturday or just any time that day? I would love to have more time of the weekend to work on the packet if needed.

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So, to clarify, these are completely new questions that have never been in a NASAT or will not be in a future NASAT?

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Will the final stats be posted?

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This was an enjoyable tournament and the questions were good.

I *might* suggest updating some of the clues--they weren't huge deals, but particularly in sports questions, a number of the questions about what teams players are on, etc. are out of ate.

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They should have gone out this afternoon.

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I think Caleb does identify some potential issues, but I think they can be worked around--at the very least, you might need to do something like bring in editors specifically to handle categories, like geo/CE/pop culture, that your other editors may not be able to do on their own.

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