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Could I see the tossup on Maad City?

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On another sitcom, one of these events led to Buster's relationship with Lucille Austero. Yeah, so I buzzed on this clue with "award shows," which is actually a correct answer given the way this is phrased. In the episode "Key Decisions," Lucille Austero gives Buster her phone n...

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I am happy to announce The Modern Age, a literature and visual arts side event consisting entirely of material from after WWII. This tournament will consist of 7 power-marked packets of 20 tossups(8-10 lines of 10 TNR) and two-part related bonuses, aping Kurtis' format from Listory and Skype Lit. It...

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Liberty-- J: Spends a bunch of time on Constant, who is, like, not a philosopher? A: Yeah, once again, if your goal when writing a philosophy question is to reward engagement with philosophy, you should clue philosophers. How is Constant not a philosopher? Eric Xu first-lined this tossup with somet...

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Gauging difficulty as a new writer is probably one of the most difficult parts of the craft, and something I still struggle with from time to time. A very important concept to learn is that tossup difficulty and answerline difficulty do not have to go hand in hand, and there are many ways to adjust ...

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Before any more rumors go around, I would like to make it clear that this set was largely completed at the start of the tournament. It's not really acceptable for it to be "largely completed" on the day of the tournament, but disregarding that, isn't it just straight-up fact that this was...

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Thanks Jon(and Jacob), that's some really useful advice. I definitely agree that good/playable questions are better than no questions, and that not every question has to be perfect or even close to it. Reading excerpts is definitely something I've utilized before and will definitely continue, especi...

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Recently, I've been writing a lot of lit questions for both improvement and with the hope of eventually making something playable. One thing I've noticed as I've began to focus on constructing good pyramidal tossups on important topics is that I operate best on things I'd classify as "fringe ca...

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I'm interested in playing this.

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a moon shaped pool is just a pool lol

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He hasn't been mentioned yet, but Eric Xu deserves some love. Coming off of being the best HS player in the country, Eric received the usual "can this kid even play on regular difficulty?" before leading UVA to 3rd at Penn Bowl(where we lost by one tossup to Columbia) and a respectable fin...

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I'd be free on Sunday.

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I really enjoyed this set, especially the literature. There were a lot of interesting and buzzable clues from works I'd read. This isn't much of a gripe, but for the tossup on Charles X, I remember the Anti-Sacrilege Act being dropped first line which seemed slightly easy, especially compared to mos...

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Why is the proposed format a 1v1 competition with non-academic questions? Besides the fact that this entire argument is stupid, I'm pretty sure nobody is arguing that Matt Jackson has a comparable knowledge of trash to this dude. Stick him on a CO team and see how he does. Give him some prep time, t...

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A quiz bowler who memorizes lists, never actually reads poems, and watches Jeopardy sporadically WOULD think that "One Art" is the answer to that question. Bishop won a Pulitzer in 1956. Check! Bishop was a lesbian. Check! But "One Art" - write it! - is hardly a tirade. Lol I lo...

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Since you're new, you should probably just blow through a few sets to gain canon knowledge, but not so fast that you don't gain anything. That's your highest ROI strategy right now since you probably don't know that many pre-FTP clues yet and it's important you learn some of those and a lot of givea...

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Spheal With It wrote:
Muriel Axon wrote:Matt Jackson hates America: The hottest of takes
What is going on in the comments section of that article?

Freedom.

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I'll be reading 25 morbid-themed questions in the IRC tomorrow night at 9 PM EST. On the whole, they're more difficult than last time, but more interesting, to me at least. This happened. Jamie Gold won it with 70, Eric Muhkerjee came in second with 50. Don't worry about it Matt, this one was too d...

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I'll be reading 25 morbid-themed questions in the IRC tomorrow night at 9 PM EST. On the whole, they're more difficult than last time, but more interesting, to me at least.

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I also find it tasteless when people are visibly upset at losing a buzzer race to one of their own teammates. I don't think this is bad when it happens with two teams on a level playing field, but when someone is up 400 points and then does this, it really sucks. "Those opponents are empty cha...

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Pretty sure Jonathan Leidenheimer will still be playing at W&M

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I'm writing 30 more questions on the morbid theme of my Albert Fish tournament. It'll be done by next weekend, will update when finished.

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I read a lot of Regs+ difficulty in HS, not because it was necessarily the most efficient use of my time(which would've been better spent filling my team's gaping science hole) but because I found it much more interesting than seeing the same regular HS difficulty answerlines over and over again. Th...

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Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:If anyone could tell me if these players are returning this year or not, I'd really appreciate it. (Part 1)

Will Anderson of Bethlehem Central
Thomas Husband of Ridgewood
Dan Blackburn of St. Joseph (of New Jersey)
Owen Pasley of Hickman

Dan Blackburn has graduated.

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If you want a good overview of military history, I highly recommend Paul K Davis' "100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present". It gives short yet comprehensive introductions to a lot of important conflicts and sparked my interest in a lot of eras in history that I had barely ...

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Though I ended up having fun and enjoying the questions and competition, I maintain that the latter categorization applies to my team. It's true that a team that loses twice in its prelim pool has no chance of winning a national championship, but it is kind of difficult not to lose twice when, in t...

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Tossups on A German Requiem and The Creation were much too difficult for this level. Tossups on Brahms or Haydn would have fared better, and the only Haydn works that could have a decent conversion rate at this level are probably Surprise and Farewell.

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I saw Revenge of the Sith for a kid's birthday party in the 3rd grade, so I'm down.

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Since I'm reading it right now, I'll throw in Angels in America as a work that is very commonly asked about and important to LGBT history. Rimbaud's relationship with Verlaine is also talked about in most mentions of them. I think LGBT topics are pretty fairly represented in quizbowl right now, espe...

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At this rate, you'll be the best individual player in the country within a year.

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For the tossup on Husserl, our moderator read "Philosophical Investigations" and not "Logical Investigations" which led to the opposing team negging on Wittgenstein. I'm wondering if that was a writing error or a mod mistake.

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Anders Frog Rasmussen wrote:
Frauny Von Smiley wrote:William & Mary gains Jonathan Leidenheimer and (probably) Alex Frey.
William & Mary DEFINITELY gains Alex Frey.

W&M's history game is off the chart.

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I'll be writing a packet for this. Possibly two packets, since U.S. history and trash are my favorite things to write about.

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Cheynem wrote:Boston Strangler

I'm happy to see that I've contributed to canon expansion. Also, sad that I didn't get to play a Richard Mentor Johnson tossup.

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Corner Grocery Store wrote:a tossup on angular momentum which started by asking about Clebsch-Gordon coefficients

This question resulted in me acting a fool by laughing when I buzzed in on it. Of course, I clarified that I was laughing because of how hilariously bad a lead-in it was.

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:I reckon I can ask if they can use the honor system so I can post it.

I believe this is known as the Hines dilemma.

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Is this being posted today?

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crash bandicoot wrote:Any rough estimate of when these packets will be published on quizbowlpackets.com?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

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Sometimes at practice, my friends and I play real life protobowl.

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I read the packet on Skype and in the IRC tonight. Skype had 4 people and got about 20/50 tossups. IRC had more and powered almost everything. Stats for both as follows; I didn't know the full names of everybody, so sorry if it's not there. IRC: Jonathan- 100, Matt Lafer-100, Tejas- 85, Matt Bolling...

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I'll be reading my Albert Fish Memorial Tournament on Saturday night over Skype and IRC, in that order. It's 50 power-marked tossups, 7-8 lines in length for each. If the name didn't give it away, a lot of the questions will be pretty graphic, so I wouldn't advise playing if that's not your cup of t...

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Here are the results for TN teams at HSNCT: t8: Ezell Harding t53: Farragut, Hume Fogg t77: USN 116: White Statios e 145: Germantown A 166: Germantown B Congratulations to all these teams, especially Ezell-Harding, for doing so well at the national level and representing Tennessee well! Ezell Hardi...

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Additionally, one could also make the argument that Lexington has surpassed AMSA after HSNCT. We beat Hallsville by 80 points during the prelims, and they eventually placed 21st. They also beat AMSA at the SSNCT. As a general rule "x beat y, y beat z, x is better than z" is a very bad way...

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Kafkaesque wrote:Illmatic or Madvillainy all the way through.

Add 36 Chambers to that list, and that's basically mine.

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I'm not usually one to gripe about "easy" bonuses, since I think most of the time it feels like people complaining because they know things, but I thought a "Largo Al Factotum"-Barber of Seville-Rossini bonus was very out of place. I thought bonus difficulty was handled very well...

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PACE was a very enjoyable final tournament with my St. Joe's team, definitely one of the best I've played in terms of both level of competition and quality of questions. I thought it accurately represented the strength of our region this year, having four teams in the top tier, with High Tech at 5th...

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How many tossups does this have?

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vinteuil wrote:I'll have a Beatles songs packet sometime mid to late next week.

I would've loved to play this when I listened to nothing but Beatles for 3 months straight. But I'll take a crack at it anyway.

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Relevant thread can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=117&t=12994&p=240240&hi ... es#p240240

General consensus? Probably not the best idea.

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