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I know Noah and the team are working through some bugs to get the final results for LIBERACE out, but there's no reason to wait to say that this was FANTASTIC. As was true for PAVEMENT and MARCATO, the QBLITZ interface and functionality is just great, but for me personally I enjoyed this audio tourn...

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Thanks to Arjun and all his staff for running a competition on the 2020 Delta Burke set. I hope everyone enjoyed the questions. Perhaps not surprisingly, it looks like the HS players in this tournament scored better than both the teams at my CC iteration and the novice university teams in the Ohio S...

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Howdy! I'm looking forward to hearing any constructive or destructive criticism of the 2021 Delta Burke set. Please keep in mind that the set is written to meet two potentially conflicting goals: to provide a good introduction to (non-NAQT) pyramidal quiz bowl to community college players, the vast ...

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Thanks to Sam and all his staff for running a competition on the 2020 Delta Burke set. I hope everyone enjoyed the questions. I've requested a private discussion forum, and when that exists I'll announce it here. In the meantime, if you have anything you're itching to share about the set or any spec...

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Maybe a little too much science, but sounds like fun!

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I'm authorizing Ohio State to invite teams from anywhere who want to play the Delta Burke set in a novice tournament. I figure that anyone who really wanted to host a mirror would've done so by now. But do let me know if that's not correct.

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Hi, Jade!

My Valencia team could use some tough scrimmages to get ready for the CCCT on February 27. I e-mailed with some ideas about when and how. Cheers!

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Add me to the list of folks who are very interested in playing this (and paying for it!) if another mirror is added.

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Howdy! So I kind of just never got around to making a Delta Burke 2020 announcement here in fall of 2020, but we wrote it and used it for our usual Florida CC tournament. I've got nine rounds of primo collegiate novice questions, with really only very small amounts of Republican bashing and scatolog...

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Ooh, excellent song choices above, Evan. I don't know if your enjoyment of The Jam moved on to Paul Weller with The Style Council, but there's a great documentary on that band on Showtime this month called Long Hot Summers . I learned how close Weller was with Billy Bragg, among other things. Chris ...

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O damn, missed the semi-final! Two days slugging out and eating leftovers, drinking beer, and watching football made for a lost weekend(ish). But the songs I would've voted for won, so yay! I'm okay with either of these songs as the winner, but I'll go with 5 Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime&...

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BRACKET LEFT 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" vs. 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come on Eileen" --You know what's worse than dirt on Jenny? (I've waited a long time, and if this gets me canceled, I'm okay with it). 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" vs. 3 Prince, "When Doves ...

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1 Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean" vs. 13 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Free Fallin" --I'm going with the "evaluate the song as an 80s song" method rather than suggesting any support of Michael Jackson, who indeed seems to have been a heinous criminal, though a perso...

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1 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" vs. 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" --It's like a party sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep myself so slender. 6 Nena, "99 Luftballons" vs. 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come on Eileen" --When they were i...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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1 Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean" vs. 9 David Bowie, "Modern Love" --Hmm. Well, if either "Beat It" or "Billie Jean" win the overall title, I think that, though neither would be in my personal top ten 80s songs, that would be a fitting result, just like "...

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My second point is that requirements to keep one hand visible are difficult to enforce and annoying for players to abide by. I'm not sure that enforcing a rule that players have to have one hand visible is any harder to enforce than the tech set ups being described above. I'm obviously not going to...

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Duran Duran isn't that good.

Well, you certainly have never been to a Chess King, sir.

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1 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" vs. 9 Dire Straits, "Money For Nothing" --If this were "Skateaway" by Dire Straits ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQBKUPwG_Gk ), I'd have some pause, but no contest here. 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" v...

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i'm gonna call the cops

Cops love Steve Miller.

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Ah, it's good to get the guys who actually were teenagers in the '80s in first! 1 Soft Cell, "Tainted Love" vs. The Cars, "You Might Think" --Yeah, "Tainted Love" is kind of a bizarre 1 seed. However, I vividly remember spending two weeks in Calistoga, California, with ...

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Huh, FWIW I used Firefox and everything worked fine.

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1 Madonna, "Like a Virgin" 5, 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" 19 No matter what else happens, this tournament is now a success, and my affection for the QB community has grown immensely. 1 Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean" vs. 16 Billy Bragg, "A New England" --Th...

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Chris Borglum won me over with his "80s representativeness" argument.

yessssssssssssssssssssss

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1 Madonna, "Like a Virgin" vs. 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" --Oh, baby, we're on our way to making this 16 over 1 upset happen!!! If you listen to each of these songs alone in a quiet room, I think Pixies win every time. 8 Bruce Springsteen, "Born in the USA" vs. 9 AC...

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I still have no idea what a white-winged dove sings like,

"Ooh, baby, ooh, said oooooh," apparently.

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My dad composed "Jump (For My Love)"

Wait, what? Story please!

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Chris is once again touched by the gods Yeah, those gods are always touching me, rarely with prior consent, not cool. Anyway, 1 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" vs. 16 INXS, "Need You Tonight" --I, too, feel close to the edge and am trying not to lose my hea...

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Zoinks! Missed the deadline, but don't see results yet, so here goes: 9A/9B: Hall and Oates, "Maneater" vs. Depeche Mode, "Personal Jesus" --Very tough! I love both of these songs and and have badly sung them in my car many times. But will go with the funkier bass line. 10A/10B: ...

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give "Space Age Love Song" a listen

--Yeah, man!

10A/10B: The B-52s, "Love Shack" vs. Survivor, "Eye of the Tiger"
What David said.

Wait, what??? Are all us over-50 guys the same to you, Matt????? Ageism!

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9A/9B: David Bowie, "Modern Love" vs. A Flock of Seagulls, "I Ran (So Far Away)" --I love David Bowie so much, but this song has never been a favorite. I like "Space Age Love Song" and "Waiting" by Flock of Seagulls better than "I Ran," but all of th...

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Oh, how I despise you....

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9A/9B: AC/DC, "Back in Black" vs. Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" --"Back in Black" still hits hard forty years later if you blast it, and you should. 10A/10B: Tears for Fears, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" vs. The Police, "Every Littl...

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This wasn't meant to be snarky. Certainly not, Sam! I was referring to my own penchant for hyperbole in disparaging takes in these threads in what I hope is always taken as good-natured ribbing. I was just trying to foreground some rare straight talk. Speaking of which: WILD CARD: QUADRANT VICE 9A/...

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These questions were excellent, and I really enjoyed playing this tournament. Thanks to Erik and the writing team and to the very good readers we had today!

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Completely agree with Naveed here, this was the first time I heard "Radio Ga Ga" and it's way better than many (most?) of the more frequently played Queen songs. Fun snark aside, I am honestly and truly baffled by the love people have for this song. Musical enjoyment isn't debatable, than...

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I have the more important role of being the cooler head that prevails over other people's crazy opinions!

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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19. The Head That Talks Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” --"Burning Down the House" is a good song, but "Once in a Lifetime" is an iconic song, one that should go very far in this bracket. The song alone would ensure that, but the video, boy, that was a sort of invitation to t...

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10. Wham!? Wham!, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” --Fun Wham! is better than sexy Wham! 11. Mostly muted English-sounding post-punk (Pick One) The English Beat, “Save It for Later” --Criminal that this is going out so soon. 12. Sops for the Indie Community (Pick One) Sonic Youth, "Teenage Riot&qu...

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Exciting! Here we go! (PS--Since many of these have more than two options, I'm assuming the format shown in the post above doesn't apply): 1. "Rock the Casbah" --Of course both of these are great songs from a great album, one which I got as a used copy from a brother for my 13th birthday a...

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Oh, man, big yes to "Waiting Room" and inclusion of a Pixies song (though I would go for "Here Comes Your Man" if only because it was their only song to ever get close to mainstream due to its heavy play on MTV's 120 Minutes).

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The Weather Girls - It’s Raining Men

Homer Simpson will be devastated.

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The greatest revelation here is that "Uptown Girl" was made in the mid-80s and not the late 60s. The greatest revelation for me is that anyone can listen to that song all the way through. PS: Ryan's suggestion about "Radio Free Europe" for REM is very good. That's the song that ...

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I 100% agree with David that "Another One Bites the Dust" is a much better choice for Queen than "Radio Ga Ga" and that "Don't Stand So Close to Me" is better than "Every Breath You Take" (but even better would be "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic&quo...

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I tried looking through this thread to see if there were any instructions for resetting a password. I have my username, but have forgotten my password, and if I try to re-register, I'm told my e-mail address is in use, so I'm out of luck. Any ideas? EDIT: So of course I just re-registered using a du...

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If this happens on the Sunday, I'll be happy to flail about on a team.

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Dang, Ngugi and Murakami are never going to win. I've enjoyed a few Gluck poems when they appear in The New Yorker and such, but her quiet poems don't seem like the kind of thing to wow the Swedes. But hey, congrats to her. Of course, picking an American this year probably means that Cormac McCarthy...

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I think Canada is limited to one winner per century, and Alice Munro won in 2013, so.

(I know some of you are going to note that there wasn't a Canadian winner in the 20th century, but Saul Bellow spent a weekend in Montreal once, which counts).

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Sure, it does have "lad" in the name.

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Maybe for Peace, though? Or chemistry!

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