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A question for local Evanston/Chicago folks: Friday night I'll be interested in hitting a local brewpub or two. It looks like Sketchbook is definitely interesting, and maybe Smylie Brothers and Temperance (the last of which looks to be further away?). Are those good calls, and if not, other suggesti...

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Well, you don't hear Sean's film questions, you "smell" them! I'm not sure what to do with those now. It's five rounds, so it might be worth offering the set at $5/head as a side thing for fall tournaments. But if there's some number of folks who'd like to play them, I imagine I could run ...

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I'd be stoked to hear both of those!

ValenciaQBowl · Re: Scattergories 3 at Chicago Open (08/04/2019) Works for me, too.

Works for me, too.

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Field Updates: NASAT Jonathen Settle/Chris Borglum/Jason Zappulla/Sean Platzer Chipola (3) Will Grossman/Khanh Nguyen/Henry Hill/ Kayla Kahlor Jesse Gingold/Zach Foster/David Espinal/Daniel Golisch Tracy Mirkin/Zach Knecht/Alex Shaw/Leo (No King, No) Law Anthony Delgado/Shawn Jarrard/Victor Fan/Tori...

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At least one team of three has already requested a free agent (preferably with fine arts knowledge) for NASAT. If you're planning on coming and don't have a team, or have a team of fewer than four, post here. I'll also keep a running list of folks I hear from outside of the fora. Free Agents Free Ag...

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The Valencia (Orlando) mirror is set for Saturday, August 10. C'mon down!

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Howdy! I'll be hosting a NASAT mirror at Valencia's West Campus on Saturday, August 10. This will be an open tournament, so all are welcome. I reckon I'll charge $50/team (i.e., $10 more than the mirror fee) to defray the cost of drinks and snacks. We're definitely playing The Unanswered Question on...

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At Valencia, where I'm dealing nearly exclusively with new players with no QB experience coming in, I'm very strict about the no-vulching policy. Returning players can recite my standard example to noobs, which involves telling them they better wait even if the giveaway is "F10P, name this guy ...

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Jus' sayin'. I was waiting to see if anything else came up, but I have five rounds (20 each) of toss-ups on film by my former Valencia player (and answerer of the toss-up that won the most famous match of which I've been a part) Sean Platzer (with a handful of my contributions). The distribution is ...

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The Rosewood and Winding Refn toss-ups are cool; too bad they didn't get used. I imagine Rosewood is better known to Florida natives, but there was a movie made about it by recently deceased director John Singleton.

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Nah, pressure is good. He's coming with me up to Chicago to read CO and then to play Scattergories with me and Tracy (and John Petrovich), which will be a good introduction to the crueler reaches of the game.

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His PIANO stats indicate he still has some work to do at the higher difficulties, but Jesse is a solid generalist This is fair, but keep in mind that at PIANO Jesse was on a team with me and Sean Platzer (history/classics) and Ian Mackenzie (art/art history), so the shadow was strongly in effect fo...

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I was waiting to see if anything else came up, but I have five rounds (20 each) of toss-ups on film by my former Valencia player (and answerer of the toss-up that won the most famous match of which I've been a part) Sean Platzer (with a handful of my contributions). The distribution is "stuff S...

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Sure, in such cases it's not ideal! We rarely had teams with fewer than four at DB back then, but I did have a note saying a person could be selected more than once if there were fewer. But we never saw a solo or even duo team before the Kelson reign of terror in Florida CCs began in 2010.

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Y'all will probably hate this, but at early Delta Burkes (from 1998 till about 2007, I figure) I would have exactly one bonus in the tournament, usually coming in Round 7 or after, which had four five-point parts, and which asked the team captain to designate a player to answer one part based on an ...

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I'll echo Jonathen's gratitude to Justin, Rodrigo, and those who staffed and who made up time after those lazy Gators got us off to a late start. And I thought the questions tried some interesting things and didn't seem as hard as some suggested (at least until around Round 7 and up, when there defi...

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Dang! I don't know that I ever heard that story (or if I did, I forgot). Thanks for the clarification.

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You'd think that Matt Weiner's team would wipe the floor with Borglum's team at Chicago Open. But Borglum somehow beat him. I've always been amused that Bruce has seemed to enjoy this result even more than anyone on my team that year (though we all enjoyed it, too!). But it should be said that Seth...

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Hmm, I'm not sure how to read this comment, Greg. Is the implication that the vulgarity, scatology, and cruel japes at Republican politicians presented in Delta Burke packets destroyed the will of that high school to continue with a quiz bowl program? FWIW, I don't recall ever sharing the set with a...

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Good idea, Bruce! I started playing collegiately at Florida in the fall of 1987 (yeah, I know, right?). Back then UF's Student Activities organization would run an intramural tournament on old CBI questions, and the top scorers were invited to join the quiz bowl team (current players obviously were ...

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I'm a solo free agent this year for the first time ever at CO. I'm not good, but I bring a cooler full of drinks which my teammates have access to. And if you don't know, I'm an English professor, which is why I'm not good at lit. Call for a good time. Edit: I should mention that my teams have alway...

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I don't know if this would help, but a possible practical argument you could make is that having the students practice during school hours could cut down on hours spent in after-school practice. (Assuming, of course, that you hold after-school practices). One would think that would be attractive to ...

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Consider this post a commitment to write a full packet. Maybe we can mirror the set at Valencia (Orlando) in conjunction with our August open tournament (at which we'll hope to mirror NASAT again). PS--Those who are going to play should listen to some Drive-By Truckers so they can power one of my to...

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Alright, y'all, this discussion is suckin' left-hind tit! Do any of y'all want me to e-mail you the set so you can offer some feedback? I'd love to hear damn near anything at this point!

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Unless I've missed an e-mail, I don't currently have any more mirror requests for Delta Burke 2018 going forward. If you think you might want to use it, let me know. We've had people using it as late as July of the following year over the last few seasons, but being perfectly honest, I'd much rather...

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As most of you whippersnappers aren't able to say much about Kelly, I reckon I ought to. Kelly teamed with Seth Kendall to mostly dominate southeastern quiz bowl from the late 90s till the early 2000s. Though I was long done with my active collegiate career by then, I played them in opens and watche...

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So to provide some detail about my discussion of the ease of bonuses in a collegiate field versus a community college field, consider that the winner at my tournament in Orlando was Valencia Red, which was my guy Jesse Gingold playing solo. Jesse topped the field in ppb at 19.39, a number that would...

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I don't think we'll have enough business to warrant separate sub-fora, so please offer any thoughts on the questions here. I'll start with my standard disclaimer about Delta Burke as a set: it's aimed at community college players, who primarily differ from most novices on university teams in that ne...

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Howdy, all! I've gotten our fabulous admins to set up a private discussion forum for this set. I'm very interested in both constructive and destructive criticism of the questions and hope you'll join the forum and offer some of that. Go to your User Control Panel and request access, and I'll try to ...

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Holy mackerel are those kids from St. Stephens good at trash!!! I have to admit that as we chatted with them and their very nice coach before the first game of the tournament, I was thinking, "Poor kids, we're going to crush them like bugs." And they jumped right out and whomped us--I thin...

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Benet's was considered an invaluable tool in the primordial era of the '90s (at least in the South, among folks I knew). I think it can be very helpful for young players to jump around using the bolded entries within other entries (indicating an article on that term/name/title)--kind of a paper Wiki...

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Thanks, Shan! That article is interesting and helpful. In particular, this paragraph is getting at what I'm thinking about: Does this mean that quizzing is entirely about superficial knowledge? It is tempting to say yes, but in truth the issue is more complex. Questions I enjoy about literature or f...

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you would be lying to your attendees if you told them that quizbowl was just a test about what you learned in school. Nobody can take enough classes to become a good quizbowl player from classes alone. This is certainly true, Bruce. Probably 80% of what comes up in, say, the literature distribution...

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Hey, Quizbowl! At Valencia College, where I teach English, we have a Friday every February designated "Learning Day," during which faculty and staff deliver or attend breakout sessions on various topics, ranging from crafts to teaching strategies to academic issues. This February, I've sig...

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This was a really fun tournament, with some interesting answer lines and clues. Joe Bob says check it out.

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I see you working, Jacob!

I probably shouldn't be letting you in on Jesse Gingold's secret improvement strategies, but he's listened to a ton of the BBC "In Our Time" podcasts, which mostly cover literature and history, but also do small dives into science and other topics.

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So this happened, and a fine time was had by all. My Valencia player Jesse Gingold won the tournament playing solo, woot!, beating a very good Chipola A team in the final match 335-205. Here are the stats: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5402/stats/delta_burke_2018_orlando/ As always, I was abl...

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I'm making plans to come down for this. Are there teams that could use an extra teammate?

Only if you want to win.

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Play Round 13, the finals, starting around 12:30, to learn about Owen Wilson's famous authorship of "Dulce et Decorum Est." A buzz which will live in infamy (and memes in the Valencia team text thread).

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This year's Delta Burke tournament at Valencia College in Orlando will be held on Friday, November 2, and Saturday, November 3, for community college teams. My Florida CC colleagues will all hear about this directly, but if you're part of a CC team that would like to come to Orlando, let me know. So...

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Hey, I know there's nothing more exciting than the chance to discuss a set that's ten months old and that most people didn't play, but with the late summer uses of the 2017 Delta Burke set over, I've got the packets on the archive now: http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/2065/ I'd love to hear any...

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Yup, my tournaments totally rule. Others from farther afoot should come down sometime!

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In case you didn't see it in the Words and Objects main thread, here are the individual stats from our W&O mirror. These only depict the first five rounds; we played the sixth round as a two-room shootout: Taylor Harvey: 20/45/4 = 146ppg Chris Borglum: 14/34/7 = 103 Seth Kendall: 9/19/3 = 62 Ian...

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I really enjoyed this set! Here are the individual stats from the Valencia mirror; we played five rounds (six teams) and then broke into two rooms to shoot out round six (no stats for that). Taylor and Leo won, with me and Jesse second, and then other people. Taylor Harvey: 20/45/4 = 146ppg Chris Bo...

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Congrats to Sethbillies (Billy Beyer, Seth Kendall, and Brian Clouse) for winning this mirror with a 9-0 record. A team of me, Leo Law, Peter Torres, and famous television personality Hannah Sage took second, while Jeff Fisher Convinced Me Mermaids Are Real (Taylor Harvey, Zach Foster, Bradley Kirks...

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Zoinks! Thanks for reminding me, Bill. And y'all were about the first to register.

Sigh, back to 11 teams.

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Field update: Me, Leo, Peter Zach, Brad, Taylor, Mickey Jonathen Settle, Matt, Donny, Jacob Casey, Cody, and Alan Asha, James, Darrell, and Stan Jesse, Aidan, Jake, and Jack South Florida (Brian and Dale et al.) Auburn War Tigers UF Young'ns (Min, Zach, etc.) Billy and Seth Delaware People That's te...

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Yeah, thanks for asking and prompting me, Mike. Sean Platzer is a former Valencia player who now is a humanities professor at Valencia; he played in ICTs for Valencia in 2006 and 2007. What I'm saying is that nobody outside of Valencia tournaments knows him. He wrote the questions for his own entert...

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Huh. Well, many of those coming to Valencia have expressed interest in every existing side tournament produced this summer, but my lazy tuchus is only putting on three "official" events: Words & Objects Friday night, NASAT Saturday, and local dude Sean Platzer's five rounds of film tos...

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