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aestheteboy

I enjoyed the set a lot. Not surprisingly, the questions were about the best one could ever get at the high school level. So, first of all, thank you to all the writers who contributed to the tournament. I would definitely like to see the lit subject tournament return at next year's WoQ. MARDUK BULL...

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Are the question sets included in the fee?

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Per-tournament distribution isn't a huge problem since, the packet distribution is never off by more than one from the tournament distribution. That is, since lit/myth distribution is 4.81, there should always be 4 or 5 toss ups and 4 or 5 bonuses per packet. The bigger problem is, as I said, that s...

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It's less frustrating if you start considering NAQT as a hybrid format. It's not too ridiculous considering that questions in the "academic" distribution often have really trashy answer/clue selection.

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So I was procrastinating, as always, and ranking the attendees based on Byko's list. Dorman A 1 Whitman 4 TJ A 5 Dorman B 11 Wilmington Charter A 12 Stuyvesant 16 Chattahoochee A 17 James Island 18 MLK Magnet 19 New Trier 20 Maggie Walker A 21 Gonzaga 25 Garfield Heights 27 Hunter 29 Walter Johnson ...

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Jonathan Magin not on the list? The horror! The horror!

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Honestly, it's just a bad question. I don't know why the question writer had to make people play the is-this-a-historical-person-or-is-he-talking-about-"In the Penal Colony" game by not mentioning the actual title (or better, by beginning with plot clues before mentioning the penal colony).

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Yeah, I'm sure there are multiple people who founded a penal colony. I'm impressed that someone could come up with Kafka from that clue.

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Since my partner surreptitiously decided to leave me, I am looking for a new partner. If anyone's willing to play with me please e-mail (izumickk at hotmail.com), IM (aestheteboy), or facebook (Daichi Ueda) me. Thanks.

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The reason these rules exist is that being pedantic about a usually non-existent "correct" pronunciation is the sort of quibbling over side issues that good quizbowl should eschew in favor of focusing on actual content. So I've come to accept that correct/precise pronunciation is not nece...

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Apparently, we're the first taping, so yes, later start time would be much appreciated.

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I've already told you my opinion, but again, I would much prefer 1v1 in the playoffs. For prelims, playing against multiple players seems fine and probably more fun. I don't know if 3 rounds would be enough for a reliable seeding especially since there are more than eight extremely good players in t...

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A slightly different situation: I was once penalized for pronouncing "Dulce et Decorum est" the "French" way, so to speak. Not that I thought it was a French poem, but the French pronunciation came into my mind naturally, for whatever reason. I think it was the correct ruling con...

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zaga needs to step it up with posting stats. it's 2 years in a row.

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something about justification Fun fact about Shantanu: At least on one occassion, he essentially singlehandedly took down a team including quizbowl luminaries like Guy, Michael W, and George and Todd from Dorman. My opinion about Shantanu: Playing on ACF and mACF questions, he is without a doubt th...

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Given that the Weekend of Quizbowl is the first event of its kind (as far as I know) at the high school, I think it warrants a nebulous prediction thread on its own. Post away your prediction for each event. I'm planning to bring an edible prize on Sunday for the person who does the best for the fir...

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I came here from "hsqb moderation" thread in the hs section. Having skimmed through those two threads, I have one point I'd like to make. The one arguement that I did not understand was the "You should know better" logic. Indeed, if CBI is as horrible an organization as some peop...

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I believe it's fairly common for a high school student to take college classes for college credit. From what I understand, doing that also makes the student a member of the institution. (For example, if I enroll in UMD class/es next year, apparently, I will receive a student ID and have access to it...

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Are you posting the prelim stats?

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Since there's so much complaint about the SCT set (from what I've seen at the college section), I have a proposal: why not throw away all the bad questions (and/or, even, adjust the distribution . . .) and use less sets but with better questions? I think this would infringe the official NAQT rule, b...

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There was a protest over the pronunciation of a certain location. (The best example I can come up with is saying Hokkadio for Hokkaido). I was OK with the ultimate outcome since I was unsure at the moment (although having checked it now, I'm 95% sure I should have won the protest) but I wasn't happ...

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Whitman A beat SC A. Gov A and TJ A were the semifinalists.

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This was a good tournament. It was certainly run more smoothly than last year, although I think it would have been better with less down time. We were done with 2 play off rounds around 4:45 (I think). I'm not sure if that's good or bad considering we had 5 rounds of prelims and the 28 question PACE...

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All three answers involve shantanu.

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I voted May because our coach doesn't like doing two tournaments on the same weekend.

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Shantanu will win triple crown over the weekend. I think Dorman will be able to take him down in one event (NAQT or Lit). I honestly can't imagine his losing on college questions, however.

Also I don't know if I actually sent you an e-mail or not but WJ would like to register a team.

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I am dismayed by the lack of response because I am totally serious in saying that I was inspired by the story. I was hoping that some college players would talk about some interesting anecdotes/how he managed to do what he did etc. but maybe he was active before the players active today started play...

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that is Subash Maddipoti. I was very much intrigued and inspired by what I found on his qbwiki article: "Noted NAQT studying machine who built himself up from the fourth-best player on his own team to the best player in the country between January and April of 2000, when he led Illinois to an u...

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I always prefer housewritten tournaments, but either way we'd be interested to attend.

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a moratorium on such nonsense as "mirite?" and the likes. It clearly violates the rule 2) The use of something approximating proper English is required. This means appropriate capitalization, "you" instead of "u", and other things that you might expect of people engaged...

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Has a decision been made regarding the fee structure and the question set? Normally I wouldn't care until the last minute, but according to my coach MCPS has gotten stricter about trips to places outside of 60 mile radius, and we need to decide whether or not we want to go pretty early.

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(Apologies for the swearing. That rule must have been updated since I stopped consistently visiting the forums.) I would like it if, you know, any Virginia teams could actually come, so what about having it on the 8th after the taping? Ours is the first taping of the day, so we would still probably...

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http://www.taftqb.com/t/prisonbowl/tournament

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MLWGS-Gir wrote:Maggie Walker's probably not coming until Saturday...

Be hardcore and go on your own. I'm sure Chris will let you sleep in his dorm or something, he's a nice guy.

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The unprecedented badness of RM B reveals that RM is struggling this year. But they're still RM: good at quizbowl. :w-hat: Are you talking about Gonzaga-beating, RM A-beating, Hammond-winning RM B? Then again, I don't know how good RM B was in previous years, but still... Uh . . . yeah. Congrats on...

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Daichi, I've only played you this year at Centennial, where the questions were below average to say the least. Your rankings are probably correct (although I'm not sure that the gap is as big as you say it is), but I don't think that one game on terrible buzzer-race speed tossups without bonuses is...

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jkohn wrote:Two teams, Blake and Walter Johnson, did not pick up the questions they bought. If you can email me your mailing address, we can send them to you.

If you are willing to give electronic copies, please send one to izumickk @ hotmail.com. If not, we can wait till the next tournament we meet (Gonzaga?).

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So I am really bored, bitter at the world, and eager to piss people off. I am going to be more honest than I usually am in hopes of sparking some discussion. (I actually started writing this before Kevin posted but I had to leave for dinner). TEAMS: 1. Whitman - Shantanu and Adam are good; Brezina k...

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segregold wrote:again

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The card system seemed to have worked out well. It was good being able to play with many top teams. I hope you guys continue to use it, and I hope teams don't drop out at the last second in the future. The questions were hard. I guess that could be a good thing, but by the end of the day I was exhau...

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Didn't Vanderbilt produce two sets a year? I really would like to see a DC mirror on the spring set because I thought last year's set, which I heard at Patriot Games, were the best questions all year except PACE nats.

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"Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors who are in their first or second year of competition" (maybe specify further "in tournaments besides VHSL/BoB/It's Ac"). I only went to like 2 tournaments and one nationals my freshman year so can you grant me an exception and let me in? (reque...

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Since I'm too lazy to write an e-mail: please register me and michael w. (unless he changed his mind, in which case he should tell you).

Also, are the questions going to be MLK/TIT? I think some hs kids (gonzaga and whitman?) are playing, but I guess that's their loss.

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Hopper wrote:Feldman?

It's all about Abiola Laniyonu. Feldman ain't sh*t.

segregold wrote:I was disappointed by this tournament

You're just bitter that you lost to your B-team led by Steve Feldman.

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RM B beat Gonzaga in the finals. WJ beat MSJ in the consolation.

Djibouti wrote:Daichi is very good.

I feel honored by the compliment from the "visionary Captain" Krumms. Yeah, that's about all I have to say about the tournament.

aestheteboy

I've always felt that from a purely cost(time-input) benefit(improvement) perspective, writing questions isn't the best way for me. This is probably because it takes me on average 30 minutes to write a tossup when I could be using that time to look up 5 things in considerable depth. It's probably mo...

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I was thinking, can't you delegate some of the stat-input responsibility to some people? It seems like an operation that doesn't really require you to be on a particular computer . . .

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Blue Hen tournament probably won't be a major problem since most DC teams attended GDS's tournament, which used the same IS set.
Still, Keith's obliviousness is amusing.

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Hopper wrote:I just noticed that Shantanu alone had more powers than all but 4 teams in attendance today.

You know, he could probably beat about all but 4 teams singlehandedly. Same with the honorable Phil Graves.

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A-Ha Whitman A 7.0 28 7 12 140 3.07 2.33 430 61.43

Shantanu is the Beast of Beasts, God among mortals. I've seriously never seen that kind of power to tossup ratio.

Ian did a very good job as tournament director. NAQT questions still suck.
Also, I would like my neg prize.

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