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Can Michigan potentially field two house teams (or glomp free agents if there are any on one team) so we can avoid the dreaded odd number of teams? Edit: Or I guess, maybe some other team...Northwestern? Other Ohio people? Rogue Chicago players? PAT FREEBURN?!!!! I'll tell people who are playing on...

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If any players who are proficient in science are still looking for a team, and don't mind playing with a bunch of high schoolers, they should let me know!

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Will HSAPQ once again be providing the questions for the old KMO state tournament?

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To the writer who wrote the pretzel tossup, I thank you for writing the tossup that gave me one of my favorite buzzes of all time. Although, I must ask what subject that was in.

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Do you keep conversion stats for particular categories of questions? Because I'm interested in seeing how the conversion rates for geography compare to other subjects. This was posted up-thread. I assume this is what you were asking for. Could you post conversion breakdowns by category? Category (%...

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I'll be up at Central this year, so I'll try and see if I can get the school to host something that isn't another housewrite.

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I think the clue for Polk about the secretary of the interior is incorrect. The first secretary of the Interior office took office on March 8th 1849, four days after Taylor had been sworn in.

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High Noon was much too obscure of a movie for the target audience of this set for it to be a tossup, I'm not saying every movie tossup should be on Hitchcock, but High Noon is out of range for high school, and I've only heard one person convert it so far. Of course I could just be disillusioned and ...

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Could I see the exact conversion rate for the Greene tossup? I think it was round 19, or whatever the fourth round of the playoffs was.

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bt_green_warbler wrote:This will take place Sunday after the NSC is over.

In that case I will have to drop out.

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merv1618 wrote:What's to stop them just making another gmail account and a fake "reasonable" name or even worse, someone else's actual name? By this point it'd become more of a burden on the site managers.

I suppose making an account be linked to an I.P. address would stop the less tech-savy spammers.

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This is a good example of what may be good for quizbowl but bad history. Plutarch is undeniably GREAT for quizbowl, but that's terrible because he made up most of the "illustrative," moralizing anecdotes that are QB-famous and he was functionally no closer to or more knowledgeable about t...

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Parallel Lives is a very nice text for Roman and Greek history, and it has the added bonus of letting you know who's paired with who for those obnoxious "Politician X is paired with Y in Parallel Lives," clues. For Byzantine history I highly recommend the work Lost to the West , it's a rea...

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I guess I just didn't remember the date being in the bonus. Thanks!

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Can you post the Ulysees S Grant related battle bonus? I remember the last part of it being kind of vague.

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bt_green_warbler wrote:
Weighted Companion Cube wrote:I'll be playing this with assorted DCC people.
Please note that this field is limited to five teams. The six entities listed in the current field should arrange some sort of merger so that everyone gets to play.

In that case, I've been given the o.k. to join the Nag-Reed-Bennett team.

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I'll be playing this with assorted DCC people.

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I'll play this with anyone who wants to play with a high schooler who can guarantee a ppg that isn't negative.

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this comes off as kind of weird. I certainly don't think you have a personal bias, yet I do think you might have just rephrased your announcement to be "Here is a Byzantine history packet." This. I would have been the first person to sign up for this, and would have willing to play it in ...

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I feel as if I should have been consulted before a side event dedicated to my pseudonym was made. Regardless, this sounds exciting and I will undoubtedly play this.

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cornfused wrote:Traffic is down because of the trolls that populate /lobby.

There are a good amount of mods now, so that number has plummeted significantly.

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:If Andy Watkins Buzzes.

Hey, he just wanted to have real knowledge of the questions.

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I'm surprised that I haven't seen any bad jokes about Andy having attended Shady Side High School.

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I'm pleased to say that the State Championship hosted by the MSU Honors College will be obtaining questions from HSAPQ for this year's question. I hope that these questions provide a more enjoyable experience and fair competition for all teams. I'd also like to thank Matt Weiner from HSAPQ and Bess...

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serasuna wrote:
Edward Powers wrote:Any update on all of those quite interesting teams who have shown interest but have not yet fully committed to coming?
Not yet. The registration deadline is coming up in 2 or so weeks, so get those in!

DCC will not be attending due to our NAQT states being on that day.

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DCC's streak continues to 1999 with our first place, meaning DCC has finished in the top 25 every year, while Dorman continues to 2002, with their first hsnct placing in 2001 being just outside 25 at 26.

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I think it would be great to immediately cut back on number the moderators. I, for one, am posting this after getting banned without warning for hitting enter a few times. I must congratulate you on the effectiveness of your block system, though; it managed to defeat all of my attempts to access th...

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I've updated the field. As I wrote above, the field currently consists of St. Joseph High School as well as an undefined number of Michigan teams (at least one). We're waiting for information from Brian McPeak of Maryland about the possibility that our site (and maybe others) may allow teams that w...

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For some reason all tiebreaker/placement games are appearing as forfeits in the final stats.

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I feel as if the word order for the first clue of the black plague tossup should be re-arranged to say something like "in response to this event, the statute of laborers......." as the statue of laborers was the cause of Wat Tyler's rebellion, which made me neg that tossup with Wat Tyler's...

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I thought that the set was good overall. The only problems i remember were minor, but there were some pretty big swings in difficulty of answer lines (I remember rounding and quantum computing in particular tripping up our science player) and a few rounds seemed to have too many common link tossups ...

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If you could post the question (or just the first clue) on the black death, that'd be appreciated,

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I think one possible move that could make admins more effective is to give moderators the ability place quarantines on the lobby and not let anyone in for a certain amount of time. What exactly would this accomplish, though? I guess it's decent for room population control, though I don't think that...

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I think one possible move that could make admins more effective is to give moderators the ability place quarantines on the lobby and not let anyone in for a certain amount of time.

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Any word on what set this will be using for the second event? Seeing as how many of the packet deadlines college sets are coming up soon, it would be really nice to know who we should be sending our questions to.

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Has there been a decision as to wether or not there will be powers for this? A decision has not been made. It basically depends on how much free time I have between when I receive the set and the tournament. To be a little more forward: Doesn't it also "basically depend" on whether the se...

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Has there been a decision as to wether or not there will be powers for this?

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Does momentum have an influence over how a match goes? I'm wondering if packing science questions early would help a science-heavy team simply because they start the game with more momentum. In my personal experience, getting a few tossups in a row will make me more agressive, which if things go we...

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I'm not complaining about the easy parts at all. I guess I should clarify that when I say "hilariously," I mean that the length of the bonus and the seemingly random things it gave to make it convertible made it humorous, not that it was just too easy. My complaint was that a lot of the mi...

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As someone who enjoys his harder sets, I greatly enjoyed this set's tossups. It wasn't as hard as past HFT's in terms of some of the answerlines (which disappointed me to an extent,) but the tossups still started with lead ins that were hard enough to distinguish between two teams. There were howeve...

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David Riley wrote:Can the tryout set for NASAT be mirrored in other states as well?

I believe they are using pennance, so I would assume the answer is yes.

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I don't know about you guys, but I love it when at tournaments like PACE 2012 I'm the only one of around four people capable of buzzing off of the road-construction clue for Detroit, and that lets me beat teams from New Jersey. Edit: I guess I should clarify that this is a semi-sarcastic post on wh...

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I don't know about you guys, but I love it when at tournaments like PACE 2012 I'm the only one of around four people capable of buzzing off of the road-construction clue for Detroit, and that lets me beat teams from New Jersey. Edit: I guess I should clarify that this is a semi-sarcastic post on wh...

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I don't know about you guys, but I love it when at tournaments like PACE 2012 I'm the only one of around four people capable of buzzing off of the road-construction clue for Detroit, and that lets me beat teams from New Jersey. Edit: I guess I should clarify that this is a semi-sarcastic post on why...

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So far, this has been great. Is there any chance of getting a hold of a bonus database for use? My team has set up a room, and it works very well. The ability to establish custom distribs is great, and the UI is very smooth. EDIT: Perhaps include several common distribs, ACF, NAQT, the like? The qu...

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Anyway you can remove the pause button in the Lobby? Nobody actually uses it, people just troll with it.

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Could you just get rid of the skip function? It leaves it open to trolling and general frustration.

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You may have a case for the "Istria" thing, although I think Istria is technically a bit north of Dalmatia. I'm not a geography person, so I won't comment further on that. As for the "region" issue, I don't think it's any more misleading to call the Balkans a "region" ...

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16. The Rhodope and Pirin Mountains can be found in this region. Istria lies along the westernmost portion of this region, and its northern boundary is partially delineated by the Sava River. The Dinaric Alps lie in the west of this region that is bounded to the southwest by the Ionian Sea. The cit...

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