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Charbroil

KSDK, our local NBC affiliate, did a short piece on us regarding our upcoming attendance at ICT; it includes some footage from our SMT mirror yesterday. The video can be found here.

(I realize that the footage spoils a few SMT answer lines; we'll be replacing those questions.)

Charbroil

As an addendum, Ophir was also incredibly helpful in providing technical support while I was making preparations last week to use his program again. He has also been very helpful in adding features to the program in response to feedback--the feature allowing TDs to see team PPG at a glance was added...

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Combined stats including the final can be found here . We also used Ophir's advanced scoresheets and statistics program at our site. The advanced stats aren't complete yet, but they will presumably be available in the tournament discussion forum once they are. As someone who moderated using the adva...

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Results are being updated here . Congratulations to Missouri A for winning the tournament! Illinois B came in 2nd. Stats are fully updated except for the final, which will be included shortly. Thanks to everyone who attended! Thanks also to our staffers! This was a great event and it wouldn't have ...

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Results are being updated here.

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I wrote this tossup; I think the first line excludes Germany (it would be odd and untrue to say that any member of the House of Wettin was a "monarch" of "Germany"), but let me know if you thought the wording was confusing. The main confusion would be monarch "from" th...

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Could I see the...history tossup on Poland? One of this modern nation’s monarchs from the House of Wettin battled a rebellion which ended after a “Silent” meeting adjudicated by foreign troops. One of this modern country’s kings was the namesake of the Henrician Articles, which governed the rights ...

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I'd play this at HSNCT.

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WUSTL is attending this mirror; we've already sent a registration email.

We hope to see more teams sign up!

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The Washington University Quiz Bowl team will be hosting a mirror of the 2018 Stevenson Memorial Tournament on March 24th, 2018. I, Charles Hang, will be Tournament Director. To register, or if you have any questions, please email our team at washuqb@gmail.com. Eligibility Only undergraduate and hig...

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https://www.naqt.com/articles/2017-sct-changes.jsp wrote:NAQT is also making modifications to its D-value system based on data collected since its introductions. These will not change the basic approach and will be announced in the near future.

Any update on this?

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Golran wrote:Thank you to a mystery sender for a map of Los Angeles puzzle, I'm excited to get it put together! Thanks also to Dylan for forwarding it when it was delivered to him.

This was mine! I wanted to combine your love for puzzles with your love of Los Angeles; I hope I succeeded!

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I just ordered my gift; it should arrive early next week.

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kitakule wrote:Would it be possible to make available the spreadsheet containing the updated fields for all sites, as done with other ACF tournaments in the past?

I, too, would enjoy getting to see this information.

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Name: Charles Hang Email: charleshang228@yahoo.com Present requests: I'd enjoy either a short sleeve tennis polo (XL or XXL) or my giver's favorite book, with a slight preference towards the polo (because I already have too many books). You're welcome to surprise me with the color, styling, etc. on ...

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I forgot to mention this in my last post, but you can get quite good book prizes from thrift stores (Goodwill, the Salvation Army, etc.) for $1-2 per book. (This is where we get our book prizes). A brief look at Google Maps reveals several such stores within walking distance of Mason Hall. Chris's p...

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I actually disagree that using the electronic scoresheets requires having two staffers in every room. Most rooms at our mirror only had 1 staffer, and almost all rooms still finished in around 40 minutes. This is true even though two of our moderators had never moderated a college tournament before....

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I'm a little curious why you all were surprised at rounds taking 45+ minutes. Both of the tournaments I've attended at Michigan have had 45 minute rounds. The most comparable example, MLK, had 45 minute rounds even with two staffers per room. Thus it seems like it should have been possible to predic...

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Finalized results are up. Thanks again to everyone who attended! Thanks also to everyone who staffed (Gina Suszko, Andy Walz, Kevin Stockman, David Dennis, Tirth Patel, Jacob O'Rourke, Jacob Billingsley, Sean Phillips, Albert Wu, Mike Janoski, and the members of our C team)! We couldn't have done i...

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Congratulations to Missouri A for winning our mirror of EFT! They beat Oklahoma A in the second game of an advantaged final after Oklahoma won the first game of the final. Stats for both the main tournament and Eyes That Do Not See will be posted by the end of the weekend. Thanks to everyone who pla...

Charbroil · Re: 2017 EFT at WUSTL (10/7/17) Tournament results are being updated here.

Tournament results are being updated here.

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With 16 teams signed up, our field is officially full!

I will send out an information email tomorrow; see you all on Saturday!

Charbroil

I'm pleased to announce that we will be mirroring Mike Bentley's Eyes That Do Not See IX visual arts tournament after the end of EFT. If you would like to play that, please email us at washuqb@gmail.com with the number of players you expect to have play that, as well as their names. After some feed...

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I'm pleased to announce that we will be mirroring Mike Bentley's Eyes That Do Not See IX visual arts tournament after the end of EFT. If you would like to play that, please email us at [email protected] with the number of players you expect to have play that, as well as their names.

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We have expanded the field to 16 teams. See you all next Saturday!

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Even though we're apparently the most prominent example of a team that was voted on by uninformed voters, I do think the overall poll result is fine. Our placement was--in my personal opinion--a little low, but certainly not outside the margin of error. Richard perfectly expressed my views about how...

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Is there any way to get a list of teams that also got votes, as well as how many points each of those teams got?

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Wes Janson wrote:
armitage wrote:Any thoughts on running an open playtest mirror like EFT and EMT?
This is a possibility; if it happens, it will likely be held a week before for a relatively small field. More details will be announced in the future.

Any updated news on this?

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: WUSTL loses Seth Ebner and Collin Nadarajah.

I also won't be playing this semester (except maybe through Skype) since I'll be out of the country during much of it.

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Half-packet templates will be sent out to your team after you have submitted the registration form. If you have questions on the submission guidelines, email them to acffall2017@gmail.com and they’ll clarify. Please submit packets to acffall2017@gmail.com and use “ACF Fall 2017: [Team Name]” in the...

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The Washington University Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a mirror of 2017 Early Fall Tournament on October 7th, 2017. The set will be regular-minus difficulty and geared toward collegiate players of all skill levels, as well as experienced high schoolers. I, Charles Ha...

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I doubt anyone is terribly concerned about this, but stats for this were posted a while ago: Double Round Robin, Finals (Advantage Mizzou). Mizzou won the second game of the advantaged final to win the tournament.

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So I'm thinking of replacing some of the in-person practices and meetings with Skype calls. Normally this would be an awful idea, I know, but schedule coordination is near impossible with college and high school classes. I've just got a few questions before I decide: 1) Pros and cons? I've been run...

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tksaleija wrote:I guess the only option now is....Protobowl...

If you just want to search for topics, aseemsdb (aseemsdb.me) is actually a modestly superior choice. (It's much less user friendly than Quinterest, but it actually has more questions archived.)

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But aren't you also playing? I'm generally not a fan of TDs playing their own tournaments (nor, say, their roommates having such roles or vice versa) --- but am typically fine if Chris does it, since he's proven to have integrity and such. I might be less inclined to participate in this event if an...

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I'm playing this. Email or PM me if you're interested in teaming up, particularly if you know science or music.

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Cheynem wrote:I didn't scout the scab team, which I would rank 10th.

Is there an announcement somewhere of who's playing on the scab team?

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My preferred time (I don't really have two) is any time after 3 PM on Sunday.

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We played a 5 game single round robin, followed by a 1-round playoff between the top 2 teams, the middle 2 teams, and the bottom 2 teams. Teams "The BHSU That Couldn't Slow Down" and "Sean Phillibecky" both went 5-1, but since the former team had a higher PPG, we awarded them the...

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Oh yes, AARDVARK will be played at Toronto's HSNCT mirror this Sunday. I will most likely host the Skype session on the afternoon/early evening of Saturday, July 15th. Let me know if there's any issues with this That 100% doesn't work for me and (more importantly), it looks like there's a major tou...

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Field (To Be Updated As Teams Register) Yongary Glen Ross (Kyle Hill, Stephanie Hull, David Dennis, Peter Kahn) "The BHSU That Couldn't Slow Down" (Rob Carson, Tejas Raje, Dylan Minarik, and Auroni Gupta) Tirth et al. (2017) (Tirth Patel, Collin Nadarajah) "Negging Is the Most Fun a G...

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Hello, everyone! I'm pleased to announce that we will also be hosting a mirror of the Cottage Bowl trash tournament after our NASAT mirror . I, Charles Hang, will be directing it. Registration To register, please e-mail us at washuqb@gmail.com with the following information: 1/ How many teams you wi...

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Is Rafael Krichevsky graduating this year? If not, it seems strange to leave Columbia off of this list in favor of 3 teams they placed ahead of at ACF Nationals.

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1/1 Philosophy and SS is too much. I mentioned this in one of my posts, but just to be clear, I'm almost certain that no one in this thread is advocating 1/1 Philosophy and 1/1 Social Science. I'm pretty sure the debate is whether 0.5/0.5 Philosophy and 0.5/0.5 Social Science is too much. Along tho...

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What's wrong with tossing up Schopenhauer on regular difficulty? There's nothing wrong with it, if it's like the hardest tossup in your philosophy distribution. However, Schopenhauer is not going to get good conversion rates at non-Nationals tournaments. I would also guess that almost no one in hig...

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We're saying each of them (philosophy and social science) being 1/1 is too much. There's a difference in asking 0.5 philosophy and 0.5 social science. It's a lot easier to make it accessible if philosophy and social science, combined, are 1/1, which I did for WHAQ I and will do for WHAQ II. You're ...

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Patrick Butenhoff and I are playing this.

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Ike wrote: I have 17 packets now.

Any possibility we could get a field update with a list of the teams that have submitted packets? Thanks!

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Brad alludes to this in his post, but 1/1 social science/philo would probably work if people just took a more flexible idea of what social science is. Brad, I agree with most every descriptive aspect of your post (most high school SS/P questions are too hard because they require quiz bowl studying ...

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Ditto "you shouldn't do 1/1 Social Science and Philosophy at regular season HS difficulty." I agree with most everything else in this post, but I don't know if this is true or not. As far as I can tell, most if not all of the regular difficulty housewrites this past year had 1/1 to 1.5/1....

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