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Wynaut · Re: MYSTERIUM - Skype Mirror - 5/7/16 I'm interested in playing this.

I'm interested in playing this.

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If anyone found an iPhone charger in any of the Bossanova rooms (or 2448), it's probably mine. If whoever found it (assuming someone did) could return it to me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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The geography was really enjoyable and well-clued; a lot of the leadins and hard parts definitely sounded like they were worth knowing about. I also certainly wasn't expecting a whole tossup on Iqaluit! The one exception that comes to mind is the Chad bonus that pretty much relied on knowing its hig...

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Unless I'm mistaken, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso is one of the most famous violin showpieces in the repertoire, and it's placement was a tad early. This also happened in DI. The Motown tossup also had similar issues (dropping Holland-Dozier-Holland AND Hitsville USA in power, even though the...

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Is there any word on whether or not we're still sticking to Chris Ray's proposed schedule of side events? I'm interested in playing Eyes and COTTAGE Bowl.

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Okay, as the obvious target of this post (since no recent tournament, at least, in my memory, had Tossup 0s except MFT, and since I wrote some of the offending tossups -- Auroni and I were the only people who wrote Tossup 0s for MLK), I'll put in a few words. Yeah, you're better off just skipping it...

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I'm no lit expert, but the tossups on The Road and Les Miserables felt incredibly easy to power to me. EDIT: Oh yeah, and the Kerouac tossup title-dropped Visions of Cody way too early. Could I also see the tossup on Micronesia, please? I want to look at the clues from before the namedrop of the fou...

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Two tossups (Chinese rail and Manchukuo) mention the Lytton report, although I don't think mentioning one will instantly give away the other.

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Since I forgot to indicate this on the team roster sheet, all of Michigan B is UG, and Efosa and Priya are DII.

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Also, I may have 5-10 Pokemon/painting mashup questions to make up for that Pokemon/academic mashup packet that never materialized.

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I have 20 NAQT-length music tossups whose answerlines are all songs, like Mike Cheyne's music packets.

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Anything to do with history, current events, politics or basic knowledge and they brain fart.

I don't know, was I watching the same Jeopardy broadcast that guy was watching?

But yeah, their almost fanatical devotion to anything involving Chris Kyle is hilarious.

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In an attempt to reward players for knowledge of more conventional history and to cut down on frustrating late-in-the-question buzzer races, I occasionally used middle clues that were incidental to the subject and theme of the tossup, but seemed to point pretty directly to the correct answer. Examp...

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All of the ANE content (Nabonidus, Sumerians, Hittites) Japan (in historiography) New Guinea same-sex marriage Greeks (in India - my favorite question of the tournament) gardens (in Rome and the Near East) Thessaly Etruscan (language) Chinese (in New Zealand - I understand I didn't use a great give...

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SethBling in quizbowl! Wow!

Anyway, this was really fun to listen through, even if I only got six tossups or so.

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Also, the tossup on FIFA described Sepp Blatter as "a former head," but, as a team at the Michigan site pointed out, unfortunately for fans everywhere, he's still the president of FIFA.

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I really loved that the "Flipped classroom" method came up. However, I'm not sure why "flipped classroom" wasn't acceptable. I spent the better part of two years working in schools beginning to implement this model and never really heard it referred to as anything but the "...

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A lot of the easier history bonus parts were mine. I did notice this trend in a few bonuses not in my specialty categories, like the BLAST bonus and the American lit one about living in the city, for example. Also--special shoutout to whoever wrote the "heartbeats" tossup. You're welcome.

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Okay, so as Cody mentioned, this was my first time being responsible for writing entire categories (Euro/World History, Geo and CE) for a major tournament. I tried to keep the clues I wrote interesting (e.g. the tossup on the Treaty of Bretigny with the "hailstorm influenced the British to sign...

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I'll be playtesting my questions (Euro/World History, Geography, Current Events) at 6 PM eastern. E-mail/PM me if you'll be attending.

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I added my name to the "free agents" thing on the spreadsheet, but I'd like to note here that I'm in need of a team for SHEIKH. I can't really be relied on to get many points, but those that I do will probably be in euro history. On that note, I'd like to encourage anyone even remotely in...

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I'd like to thank everyone who worked on this set, as well as Stephen, Doug, John Lawrence, Jeff Hoppes, and others for working on their respective side events and making my first Chicago Open a blast. Also, thanks to the teammates I played alongside for the first time this weekend (Mike Bentley, Be...

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I can definitely be around to staff this as well. If there's enough staffers already, feel free to disregard this.

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I misunderstood what the "expressed interest" list entailed, so I'll sign up for the waitlist again.

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I'll put myself on the "expressing interest" list. I probably won't do well if I do play, but it's an area I'd like to tackle at some point.

EDIT: I can also staff if needed.

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bird bird bird bird bird wrote:Irc has not yet been scheduled. It might be late next week.

Sorry to be that guy again, but is this still being scheduled?

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I am almost certain that Edison is not the sole inventor of the lightbulb, and in recent years (relative to his death I guess) people have been emphasizing the role of other people in a bunch of his inventions. Nodes sounded an awful lot like junctions (of junction rule fame) and I don't know if ma...

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So yeah, just like other people posted, I'm looking for some feedback on the questions I wrote. There were some things I neglected to fix, like the bonus that looked for the "founder of the Carolingian dynasty" for Charlemagne even though Pepin the Short can be considered the founder. Ther...

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I actually learned who Nicola Sturgeon was after seeing a comment that read "Nicola Sturgeon is my waifu" on a polandball comic.

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bird bird bird bird bird wrote:This set will have a Canadian mirror in July. It will also be read in the irc at some point in the next two weeks or so.

If you can't make either of those venues but would like a copy of the set, please email me.

Is there a definite date for when this is happening?

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Steeve Ho You Fat wrote:Traverse City Central has a team?!

Yeah, they've been on Quiz Central a bunch and have came down to Ann Arbor for a few tournaments.

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I can play an online mirror of this if it happens, since I'm definitely not going to be at HSNCT.

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If anyone's looking for someone, I'm fairly decent at Euro/World, or at least I'll try to be.

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Could I please see the tossup on 1666 in which the last clue was the year the Great Fire occurred? I ask because I remember hearing the question ask for the year Charles II was restored, which would have been 1660. I wrote this question (it's probably the only year TU I've ever written/ever will wr...

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Going to be reading for VCUO, but I'm intending on playing side events. So...

1. History
2. Modern
3. Science

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So I first heard about quizbowl in senior year from my dad, and after buying some beginner resources from NAQT, I thought that this was something I'd be quite interested in. I got a few like-minded friends to join me at my first tournament, the 2012 Autumn Classic, which was a blast even though the ...

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Oh yeah, here's a lingering request: could I please see the "thyroid" TU? I wanna know the clues before I BS'd my way to a 15 on the clue about a "third lobe."

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Hidehiro Anto wrote:The Nepal bonus in round 2 did not tell the moderator to not reveal the full answer to the first part, so the second part was rather easy.

This was also done at the Waterloo site, and resulted in a very confused Adam Swift.

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I'm definitely interested in playing this, preferably with someone who knows American history.

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I can most likely play this. I know history stuff and a few random lit clues that probably have little chance of coming up at this tournament.

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This is probably due to not a lot of folks being up on specifics about the environmental movement, but both the players on MIT B and I didn't think the Greenpeace question played out particularly well. The question seemed to indicate relatively early that the organization was concerned with the env...

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Could I see the tossup on "valence," please? I want to confirm whether the things I've heard about it (i.e. the band gap clue being in power even in DI) are true.

Also, repeating an edited-in request from my previous post, could I see the tossup on "Trieste" as well?

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Could I see the tossup on "capacitors"? I negged it with "inductors" near the end of the question because I was being stupid, and I just want to see the clues again. I do remember the leadin being about how a 741 op-amp had one of them. Also, if I recalled correctly, a bonus part...

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I really enjoyed this set. I appreciated reducing the amount of mixed academic questions on adjectives (a la the "standard" tossup from this year's SCT), and the geography questions weren't just context-less lists of place names (with the exception of the Zagros Mountains bonus part). I di...

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I remember learning a bunch of English Civil War stuff from Monty Python's "Oliver Cromwell."

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Just out of curiosity, what was the 10/5 bonus this time around? I don't think I heard it. Also, can I see the full "Buddhist relics" TU? I just wanted to see it again, since I said "teeth" at the clue about the Tamil Tigers bombing and was antiprompted generously (I didn't know ...

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While not a factual error, there was a packet with some bad quizbowl feng shui. One round had a history TU, a current events TU, a lit bonus, and a fine arts music bonus on Mexico.

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I may or may not be playing this solo. I'll edit this post once I know if I'm going for sure.

UPDATE: I will be going as a one-person team. (You can count me as the Michigan team)

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TheDoctor wrote:
Dead Parrot wrote:
Coldblueberry wrote:Please host @ Rutgers!
We'd certainly like to, but we're still awaiting confirmation from Rob on whether it's okay for us to host.
Northern Illinois is in the same boat.

Any word on whether this (or any other Great Lakes/online mirror) is happening?

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Could I see the "whistling" TU? That was probably my favorite question of the set, and since the last words I heard before buzzing in were "Otis Redding," I want to see what the rest of the TU looked like. In addition, could I see the TUs on "Hindu pilgrimages" and &quo...

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