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No, no one stuck around except for Oakland Mills, so we canned it. If Maryland wants to get a NASAT Team together, they should figure out who can go and do it soon.

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Man, I don't remember making that post at all. It's a pretty good post. I still agree with most of it. Last weekend, Maryland Spring pulled in a disappointing 18 teams [17, if you count one of them as a scab team]. What went wrong? Well, it wasn't an ideal weekend. AP exams are coming up and the sem...

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GDS won two games over "Ontological Academy" in an advantaged final to take the tournament. Prelim stats are here . Combined stats are here . Thanks to everyone who came. Much thanks are to SteveJon Guth, Brian McPeak, Gary Weiser, Paul Marchsteiner, Chris Manners, Dan Puma, Jeff Amoros, C...

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Even worse than those "ACF is impossible" posts is seeing my father "like" them for some reason.

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This tournament nears, and we now have 17 teams! Another team should sign up.

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I realize I did this to myself by being modest by ranking him higher than me on my own ballot, but the number of people ranking Rafael higher than me (by a lot) is starting to grate on me. Open ballot: 1. Rafael Krichevsky 2. Matt Bollinger 3. Eric Mukherjee 4. Chris Ray 5. Matt Jackson 6. John Law...

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This field is getting larger, but there's plenty of room left. Sign up!

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It's not too late! Please email me at [email protected].

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Lord Hatefun Complainington wrote:Soooo, is this gonna host NASAT tryouts?????

If you guys want me to, I'll stick around after the tournament and read for some sort of tryout. But I don't really want to be the arbiter of who makes the team.

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I Min Alsklings Tradgard wrote:Ok, understood. Would students wishing to play solo receive a discount on the entry fee?

We can probably work something out on a case-by-case basis; in your instance, you'd probably also get a distance discount.

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Look, I'm sorry, but this is not an open tournament. If you want to play the tournament alone, please do, but I'm going to say no on combined teams. Playing tournaments alone is a lot of fun, anyway.

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Unfortunately I'm having trouble mustering enough manpower to be able to go because of AP exams, and because many of our good underclassmen are busy. I wish I could just sign onto someone else's team, I REALLY don't want to miss this one... You could always continue the proud Isaac Hirsch tradition...

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Here's the distro--
Literature 4/4
History 4/4
Science 4/4
Fine Arts 2/3 or 3/2
RMP 3/2 or 2/3
Trash 1/1
Social Science 1/1
Current Events 1/0 or 0/1
Geography 1/0 or 0/1

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But this discussion isn't about me, or how hard I think things are; it's about accessibility for newbie teams. Again, freshmen in my school with no prior experience can get science tossups. They can't get literature, and for them fine arts has a conversion rate of about 0%. I'm only bringing up how...

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"Painfully" easy giveaways may not be painfully easy for everyone; the point of a giveaway is to make sure that most teams can convert the tossup, as dead tossups kinda suck. So there's nothing wrong with giveaways like this.

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With less than a month to go, we have our first registration from Quince Orchard!

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Here is my ranking of how teams will do, based entirely off of how much I have seen them play: 1. Maryland 2. VCU 3. UVA 4. Penn 5. GMU 6. UVA B 7. Yale A 8. South Carolina 9. Harvard 10. Columbia 11. Haverford 12. Ohio State 13. Minnesota 14. Rutgers 15. WUSTL 16. Chicago B 17. Chicago A 18. Chicag...

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Fortitudo Bologna wrote:counterpoint: I do not understand how to correctly make a post

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That'd be fine with me, especially because it means interested people would register for Maryland Spring!

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Sure. What times do people want us to hold them?

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Yes, but it's a good thing Lehigh and Maryland B are attending.

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Here's my rankings: 1. UVA A Recovers well after a rocky start where they neg the first 10 tossups against Texas A&M. After Matt negs the 11th question telling everyone to stop negging, they come back and win the game and do not neg for the rest of the tournament. 2. UMD A Chris Ray uses the con...

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We'd [by we I mean me, I guess, I don't want to speak for the team] would be okay with helping run team tryouts, assuming our campus is accessible enough for try-outers.

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This tournament is now on Sunday, the 6th. Now let's get some registrations!

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sir negsalot wrote:RM is in the It's Ac semifinals

Right, that's why we'd consider moving it to that Sunday. Would RM be able to play the day after?

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Question: Would people prefer we move this to Sunday, the 6th? We'd dodge It's Ac that way. No one's registered yet, so I'm not sure who'd be inconvenienced.

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I like exciting things!

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Matt Weiner wrote:There are already more sets being produced than weekends to run them on

Yeah, and those sets are all of equal quality and difficulty.

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Man, it's a good thing we have infinite resources like question writers and time to make these sets! Also, it sure is great that everybody is equally good at writing accessible, pyramidal questions!

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I actually only know more about the author Ring Lardner than any other author. Granted, this is a pretty small sample size, but I hope to see at least 1/1 Lardner in tournaments from here on out.

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Folks, this tournament is still happening. Better to register early and often, although I guess teams who are waiting to see if they're in the It's Academic semifinals will hold off on registering. But if that doesn't apply to you, register!

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I know plenty of people don't have the expectation of non-repeats; while there was a little grousing when "Egypt" showed up as an answerline three times, no one really was all that bothered by it, and one of my teammates negged a question with something that had already come up as a tossup...

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Yeah, this is still happening, I think, but not on May 5.

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I thought about making some hilariously self-indulgent post about how my teammates and I are all famous NBA players whose skills far outclass our own, but then I realized I'm not 11.

EDIT: JUST KIDDING I AM PRO-FLAMEOUT JOE FORTE!

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Fred wrote:Stop with the whole "AN AD HOMINEM POST GOES LIKE THIS HURR DURR HURR DURR", "NO IT GOES LIKE THIS HURF DURF HURF DURF" thing.

Ad Hominem Posts drive like this, but posts without personal attacks drive like THIS!

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I'm not sure where the idea that DI SCT is TOO HARD is coming from. I played DII SCT [and ICT] last year, had fun, enjoyed myself, put up good but by no means earth-shattering numbers, and played DI this year and did the exact same thing. My team went 0-10. 0-10! I still enjoyed myself, did not find...

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Look, I think the point here is that the rules really aren't supposed to be constantly questioned. I don't agree with all of them either, but there was a thread where we were supposedly to discuss the rules and administration, and this isn't that thread. This isn't our forums; we deal with the rules...

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If the Twitter feed did not appropriately express my feelings on this tournament, it was not good. It was very bad. It made Penn Bowl proper seem fine.

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Not to pile on or anything, but there were some significant problems with this tournament, some of which are a little different from the perspective of a less-than-elite team. I'll probably edit them in once I get some fucking sleep.

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I'm glad to see Maryland B continues to be used as a measuring stick for tournament difficulty. We'll continue to do our best to be the exact middle between good and bad.

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I really hope that this isn't the announcement that you sent out in emails to local clubs, because many coaches, especially ones that are less familiar with pyramidal QB or tournaments such as these, are going to have a very hard time taking you seriously when they read this. I'd suggest changing t...

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This tournament has now been platinum certified by PACE.

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In 95% of cases, and in 99.9% of cases in high school quizbowl, a question with a power in the last line would be too hard. I'm not arguing against that at all, I'm just saying that even if one wanted to write a tossup about a subject that was too hard, they should move clues before the FTP so that...

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This tournament has been moved to 5/5. Sorry, St. Anselm's! [Also Thursdays.]

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Whoops, apparently that's been claimed. We're moving this to May 5th. Yes, we're aware this is before AP Tests. We're sorry.

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This is an announcement for The University of Maryland's Spring Classic High School Tournament 2012 at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are holding it on Sunday, May 6th, 2012. The tournament will be housewritten, with 20/20 rounds and a modified ACF distribution to be posted soon [one c...

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Maryland would like to claim April 14 for its Spring Housewrite.

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Also, what was up with the enthalpy tossup having a bunch of clues that mostly specifically referred to lattice energy? If I recall correctly, there was no alternate answer or prompts in the answer line. Were there any sites that had problems with this? If I remember correctly, a player on Dorman n...

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I mostly enjoyed this tournament. However, the tiebreaking packet not being evenly distributed is a pretty not good thing. Playing a team that is superior on science on a half packet tiebreaker with 3 science tossups out of ten puts a team at a serious disadvantage. There were also some repeats in s...

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I mean, this tournament seemed pretty determined to make me dislike it, but I'll admit it wasn't bad at all. It was still fairly enjoyable [except for a few things that I will address when a forum gets set up] and, yeah, there was some issues, but acting like "HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME WRITE A PACKE...

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