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Could I see the tossup on Québec please? From memory, it felt basically like an old-timey Geo question asking physical features in the empty space in Northern Québec, without much else there. This region’s largest lake is Lake Mistassini, which is fed by the Rupert River. A hydroelectric project in...

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nsb2 wrote:A false-statements case has been filed by the FBI against the son-in-law of a LetterOne board member.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ssia-probe

What do you think about this?

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Note to moderators: let people have fun playing quiz bowl and encourage their teammates as long as it doesn't get into gloat-y territory. As long as they're not hurting anything or impeding the timely progress of the tournament (which Rishik's team clearly wasn't), don't do any of this. Neither you...

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http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 19&t=14886

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Having directed a number of tournaments, I've found Cody's room-balanced schedules to be a great help. You can take them and enter the teams at your tournament and have a good schedule ready to go without much effort. If teams drop late and you can't print off a new set of schedules, you can just co...

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One issue that we sometimes see in quizbowl discourse (and in many other places, really, but this is the quizbowl forum so the context here is quizbowl discourse) is people taking their personal experiences and universalizing them even when that's unjustified or unwarranted. If you're a college fres...

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The concept of a "women in quizbowl" forum that is moderated to prevent mansplaining is well-intentioned, but its effect is to separate the experiences of women from everything else in quizbowl. Sarah's thread from 2015 is important to everyone, but in nearly three years it's been viewed l...

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I wonder if literally any bio player got the tossup on "invasive species". Why would anyone think to give any answer besides mosquitoes to a clue about "gene drive using CRISPR to sterilize "these organisms""? This wasn't even prompted!!! Delaware did in fact buzz with...

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I haven't read through the whole set yet, but the Senegal River tossup seems like an example of fake difficulty; it's a tossup that's made harder than its clues would suggest by being on a more difficult answerline than it needed to be on. The Senegal River may not be terribly obscure, but it's not ...

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Jeff, last year you wrote this post regarding NAQT's decision to share questions between state championship sets and Division II SCT sets: We felt that this change was the best balance between providing as many high-quality questions as our customers want to buy and placing reasonable demands on our...

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Big Y wrote: Here are two facts to keep in mind when you do this:
1) There were over 3000 days during the 1970s.
2) On most of those days, somebody released a song better than Mr. Brightside.

Dude, this is true of every decade since the commercialization of recorded music.

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I am not speaking for anyone but myself, but I find it odd and inconsistent that the Ann Arbor site was nixed for being too close to the Minneapolis site but a New York site has been approved despite the existence of a previously-announced College Park site. It's less that it was "too close&qu...

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I am not speaking for anyone but myself, but I find it odd and inconsistent that the Ann Arbor site was nixed for being too close to the Minneapolis site but a New York site has been approved despite the existence of a previously-announced College Park site. It's less that it was "too close&qu...

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I am not speaking for anyone but myself, but I find it odd and inconsistent that the Ann Arbor site was nixed for being too close to the Minneapolis site but a New York site has been approved despite the existence of a previously-announced College Park site.

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What are you complaining about? Are you upset that someone took the time to provide detailed feedback so that you can improve as a writer? Your post makes no indication that this Person B acted inappropriately or unprofessionally, only that they were critical of your writing and you didn't like that...

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Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair When I lived in Atlanta, I lived in an upscale recent development, in the sort of neighborhood where there were always white people out and about walking their dogs. My apartment wasn't terribly far from campus (when I departed on my walk to ...

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I neglected to mention this earlier, but the greatest omission in this bracket is "Everytime We Touch", the best thing that Germany has ever produced other than Carsten Gehring. Put it on in a room full of people and watch how excited everyone gets every time. It's better than almost every...

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For what it's worth, Jonah, I would definitely play that Jenny Lewis packet. I remember at Maryland practice we failed to pay attention and ended up reading one specific Harvard International packet at least three times, and each time I was really excited to power the tossup on Rilo Kiley. Crazy - G...

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2/2 Other Academic (any academic discipline not represented by the above, pop culture viewed through an academic lens, "highbrow" pop culture, up to 1/1 more of any component of this distribution) Can you elaborate on what "highbrow" pop culture is? What distinguishes acceptable...

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The Fear – Lily Allen vs. Love Story – Taylor Swift It'd be neat to talk about how Taylor Swift and Lily Allen have switched places since 2009 in terms of likability, but unfortunately Lily Allen hasn't really become more likable. "Love Story" is a good song but it'll win regardless of my...

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Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story) – !!! vs. Do ...

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No, you can't ban Luke Tierney from tournaments just because you found out today that his politics are bad.

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Speaking as a person who does get a lot of trash questions and whose primary academic interest is the cultural history of sports, I disliked the division of the trash distribution into "high" and "low" both in theory and in practice. The distinction between trash and academic con...

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My only real issue, and this is a nit-picky single question concern, is the Berlin Airlift tossup, which I have included below. The Gatow disaster exacerbated tensions prior to this event. Gail Halvorsen was given the nickname “Uncle Wiggly Wings” for delivering candy to children during this event....

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But as long as there continue to be forum posters who engage in white-knighting on behalf of hypothetical persons (as opposed to real people in some smaller circuits who may privately express puzzlement or annoyance at such attitudes) it's hard to blame hosts for not wanting to bother with the head...

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I have placed this thread in the Collegiate Discussion board because it deals exclusively with collegiate tournaments. In some parts of the country, it has been accepted practice for closed collegiate tournaments to be open for play by teams of high school students who do not all attend the same sch...

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Okay thanks! Are there any tricks with the round/games, too? I assume no overlap on that. To ensure no overlap, I would have one person stick with the traditional numbering of games (starting at 0), and the other start at a higher number, i.e. 400, so that each game still has its' own individual ID...

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I have some questions about this announcement, since it is unclear in some places. The set is probably regular difficulty but we call it "Novice." What does this mean? What is the intended difficulty for this set? By definition novice sets are easier than regular difficulty sets, so a set ...

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For anyone who doesn't know what the brouhaha here is about or would like to be acquainted with this system, here is a helpful short video that demonstrates in full how it works.

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Who or what is "QFOD" and why are its players unable to use their real names or the real name of their school? Not your business? Maybe they're a high school that needs to use pseudonyms because of some restriction? Naveed's question is not an illegitimate one, and Will's own history give...

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Who or what is "QFOD" and why are its players unable to use their real names or the real name of their school?

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Using a script is a creative idea, but it seems more suited to a poll with 14,000 voters than a poll with 14 voters. I received the poll results from Harris and used Excel to manually create rankings in a more familiar form, using the standard system of 25 points for #1 down to 1 point for #25. This...

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Let's consider the top-ten teams in last year's postseason poll that haven't lost a majority of their scoring: #3 Yale: currently not writing a tournament #4 Stanford: currently not writing a tournament #5 Chicago: currently not writing a tournament #6 Columbia: currently not writing a tournament #7...

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Something that I think is important to add is that you shouldn't try to explain too much. Nobody even really needs to leave the activity fair knowing the difference between tossups and bonuses. If you can impress upon people that this is an activity that an intellectually curious person might enjoy ...

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Don't run a tournament open to all teams on a novice set.

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Few of them take quiz Bowl seriously and treat more as a social gathering. Is there anything wrong with this? I mean this is not DI collegiate football where you could possibly make hundreds of millions of dollars (unless you are :kenj:)? Is there a problem with just having fun? Now, do not get me ...

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I'm not sure why people have begun making threads for every new packet they create, considering that there's a thread on this board for the explicit purpose of posting about packets so as not to clog the boards with threads like this.

I'm posting it here but it applies to every similar thread.

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It's hardly an original observation, but this is, I think, the reason that success in high school doesn't correlate nearly as well with success in college as one might expect. People who play at a high level in high school are used to being able to buzz with confidence on a large number of questions...

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Cheynem wrote:7. The Worst of Jordan's Teammates

You might have missed this, but I'm actually not playing Chicago Open this year.

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To quote Joe Nutter: I'll take this opportunity to point out that Michigan State also offers a scholarship ranging up to full tuition+room and board+annual stipend for doing well on a test they offer which basically consists entirely of quizbowl knowledge, covering all categories and closely aligni...

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People have pointed out in this thread that side events attract a different audience than a NASAT mirror might. This is true and it's a good reason not to shoehorn in a full day of NASAT on Saturday rather than playing side events that the people sticking around for Sunday might be interested in pla...

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Shashmaqam wrote:
idek wrote:I better learn how to use IRC
I have no clue either, which is why this will probably be on Skype.

Follow this link, choose a nickname, and hit "Go". You now know how to use IRC.

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1. Yale Much like 2017 Maryland, this Yale team has three Jews, and much like 2017 Maryland, this Yale team will win ACF Nationals. The difference is that Yale will also win ICT. Jacob Reed is one of the few active collegiate quizbowl players good enough to lead a team to a championship, and every ...

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The biggest problem with an easy giveaway is that if neither team knows anything about Albanian history, then your tossup just turns into a speedcheck where the question is "Do you know what country Tirana is in?" When the giveaway is a single clue that is much easier than the rest of the ...

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jiholius wrote:HFT XII will consist of 15 power-marked rounds: 13 regular difficulty rounds, and 2 harder difficulty rounds intended for finals.

I am curious as to why the finals rounds are more difficult.

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A major issue facing college quizbowl that has been the subject of some discussion is the difficulty of starting a new club at a college; something that gets talked about less but is just as important is the ease with which a college quizbowl club can disappear. For example, among the clubs that sen...

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I'm not one to complain about free packets, but I think that it would be better for everyone in the future if this were announced a little bit farther in advance so that people had more time to contribute questions and so that we got more than thirty tossups to play.

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Matt and Jordan have the same number of ACF Nationals titles. People forget that.

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I am finished with school and will return to the Bay Area for at least the duration of the summer and probably indefinitely.

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Eric Mukherjee is still an insanely good specialist and a really good generalist. I think we all knew this, but to highlight this, I'll note that he had the second-highest "first buzz percentage" at the Michigan site of This Tournament is A Crime, with 1/3 of his buzzes being the first bu...

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