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20 tossups, we don't have timers.

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Hey everyone, As I said over in the Rube thread, we hit capacity for our field. The MSU team is still rebuilding, and we feel that a field of 36 is good for this tournament. We are going to be hosting tournament in March and April, and I'll let you know soon about those. We are going to set ourselve...

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On a side note, I'm going to be discussing organizing some sort of quiz bowl body within the state: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... &start=100

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We closed the field at 36. We are working on tournaments for March and April. It is unfortunate that we weren't able accommodate all the teams. :( We are going to work on expanding our field for future tournaments. I took teams in the order that they signed up (and I posted the announcement here bef...

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i agree that its less popular than the other 3 major sports, but when people call for eradicating it from the "trash canon" its quite ridiculous.

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Hockey is what brings out the sissyness in quiz bowlers. I'm contemplating writing a hockey packet for my trash side tourney, just based on this thread and the Penn Bowl Trash thread from last year.

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For high school, should writers assume Tracy McGrady can be an easy part of a sports bonus? Or would he be a middle part with Houston Rockets being an easy part (with obvious gettable clues)? T-mac is only the highest paid player in the NBA. As for sports, there is little distinction between high s...

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We need more tournaments. Well over 40 teams have asked to come to Rube. I haven't had enough time to turn them all away. This is fantastic, but with Autumn Classic and Rube filling well over their capacity, some high schools (that aren't in the Novi city limits) need to step up. Wayne just started ...

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Sorry if I came off snippy... but I am just getting a bit impatient waiting for my Illinois brethren to make the trek over here, when I see Chi-area teams regularly trek out to UIUC (further than Culver from Chicago) and Rockford (just slightly closer than Culver from Chicago). Apart from whether T...

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cornfused wrote:à la TGTT11?

Inspired by TGTT11, but in Trash form only. I feel its the only way you can run a trash topic packet, without alienating a significant part of the field in any given round.

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I don't get Indiana. There aren't too many schools that have IU as their closest site (except for parts of Indiana, parts of Kentucky, and parts of Ohio). Which schools other than say Louisville and Ohio State are they trying to attract? Also what does Bloomington have that Muncie doesn't?

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Field Update (Field Closed at 32): Jackson (2) Quincy Sand Creek (2) Dewitt (2) Brighton (2) Ionia (2) Mio (2) DCDS (2) Troy (2) Farmington Rochester White Cloud Bath Holt Lansing Catholic (2) Carson City Milford Cheboygan (2) University Liggett (2) DCC (2) Wait List: Greenhills We will try to expan...

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I will (hopefully) play this (and any side events), but I won't be able to give a definitive answer until next semester. This sounds fun. I'm thinking about writing a trashy side tournament. Something like this tournament goes to 11 (with less rounds of course), except you only have 4 players to sp...

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This sounds fun.

I'm thinking about writing a trashy side tournament. Something like this tournament goes to 11 (with less rounds of course), except you only have 4 players to split between 2 rounds. Of course, everything would packet would be a trash topic or a trashy theme.

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TheKingInYellow wrote:We've asked a few other schools if they were interested in this tournament, so far there hasn't been too much (i.e. any) response... we'll keep asking, but would HSAPQ be horribly averse to State College as State Pennsylvania?

You guys should get orange jumpsuits for uniforms.

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Cheynem wrote:Could Rom take it?

I played Trashregionals with Rom, he could make it as long as movies aren't eradicated, or are watered down to movies from the last 5 years that everyone has seen.

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A lot of the fun of Trash (for me at least) is having embarrassing knowledge. And I am looking forward to Cult, and trying to bring a team down. Trash just needs to be more college player friendly, as that's the primary market.

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DCD beat CC at our tourney back in November. After a few months, it's clear the top teams in the state are: 1. DCD 2. CC A 3. Novi A There's lot's of other solid teams in the state, but right now these 3 stand out. DCD is the best, but on a bad day are vulnerable to lose to CC A. CC is clearly the ...

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Field Update (28 teams at the moment): Jackson (2) Quincy Sand Creek (2) Dewitt (2) Brighton (2) Ionia (2) Mio (2) DCDS (2) Troy (2) Farmington Rochester White Cloud Bath Holt Lansing Catholic (2) Carson City Milford Cheboygan (2) The cap is still at 32 teams, we'll take a waiting list, as we will r...

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According to the NAQT website, that round had 20 tossups read. I'm sorry to intrude in this conversation, but I found that according to this http://www.naqt.com/stats/team-performance.jsp?team_id=11192 the number of questions in the round would have to be at least 22. We would never know how many q...

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what was the date of this tournament?

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Come to MSU! (it was worth the try).

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evilmonkey wrote:Packets are required of all teams, except for those composed entirely of players who did not play a college tournament before THIS academic year.

Why the lack of ACF rules on this? Are you trying to discourage young teams? This actually may dissuade me from getting MSU to attend.

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A phone number is required. It is nice to have that contact, for day of things, but why am I posting my phone number up to everyone? I prefer to just send it out to teams in an email.

Also I get a server error when I try to submit a tournament.

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The 2009 SCT deserves an honorable mention, at least. It was a pretty damn well written tournament, with only one or two difficulty outliers (the tossup on Miklos Horthy comes to mind.) I also thought it was among the best copy-edited tournaments, and had few issues playing it while running a fever...

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Bird Sonata wrote:Uh-oh. Looks like I won't be seeing Michigan teams attend our tournament in February, since we're using the same set. Oh well.

Yeah, I sent this out to some Ohio teams, and they told me they were headed your way.

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master15625 wrote:Could you have us as tentatively attending this tournament?

Thanks

yes.

Broad-tailed Grassbird · Re: ACF Winter Midwest at Michigan, Ann Arbor (1/16/10) 3 Teams from MSU.

3 Teams from MSU.

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Field Update:
Jackson (2)
Quincy
Sand Creek (2)
Dewitt (2)
Brighton (2)
Ionia (2)
Mio (2)
DCDS (2)
Troy (2)

Right now, the field cap is 32 teams, but that could rise.

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The XFL used pseudonyms. "He Hate Me" aka Rod Smart being the most famous. Maybe State College wants to play some form of quiz bowl where there are 2 harder 15 point bonuses (no PAT rule in XFL). Also, maybe they want to have a race into the room to see which team gets to sit on which side...

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:Quizbowl in the U.P? I am now sans monocle.

If they ever host a tournament, I am going just so I can say I played quiz bowl in the UP.

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Michigan State University’s Academic Competitions Club is proud to announce Rube Goldberg Invitational VII scheduled for January 23rd, 2010. This tournament will be using NAQT invitational set IS-92. The field size and number of guaranteed games have not yet been determined, but we plan on running a...

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millionwaves wrote:My account just got activated, I'll send out invites to the first n people who posted when I'm able.

From what I've heard they come in 12s, but it's hard to get them. I know one guy who got 30 invites (after getting 12).

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Solid for now. Post updates.
wave me nalinl AT googlewave DOT com

I think Michael Hausinger randomly found me on wave?

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Hey everyone,

Michigan State University will be hosting the Rube Goldberg Invitational VII (you're all invited!) on January 23rd. The question set will be IS-92. I will be posting details this week.

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Somehow I got to practice and another person wanted to play.

6 people, this won't change I promise this time.

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nalin wrote:
sds wrote:Any chance you have more than 4 people who want to go? We could probably scrape together a combination Michigan/MSU team...
I'll let you know tomorrow.

We have 5 players coming, but I don't foresee anyone else joining.

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I remember my freshman year the college bowl and ACUI regionals was at MSU. It was very strange. There was bowling, poker, and pool, and all sorts of other random folk from Michigan and Ohio. There was also a Joel Knight spotting. It was very oddly placed in our union, and I don't think they would b...

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sds wrote:Any chance you have more than 4 people who want to go? We could probably scrape together a combination Michigan/MSU team...

I'll let you know tomorrow.

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MSU will only be bringing 1 team (a few dropouts this week), sorry for the inconvenience.

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Congrats to State College, who obviously still have mad skills at the whole quizbowl thing. I'm actually kind of shocked that Maggie Walker and State College High School have now played each other twice, in two finals - of college tournaments , defeating veteran college teams on their way there. Wh...

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Do you guys have any more info on start time, and # of rounds?
I won't know how many people I have committed until then.

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Just FYI, I thought that was the most ridiculous claim ever, and if Q-Unlimited was to schedule a big tournament on a date in Michigan, I would schedule a tournament on the same date.

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ACF Fall '09
Right Answer: Quantum of Solace
My Wrong Answer: Rat Race (early in question)
Most other wrong answers (in a significant % of rooms): Casino Royale

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This is life-changing: http://www.qunlimited.com/na296.htm Academic Emphasis The competition focuses on academic information - "significa" rather than "trivia" - and the questions are supplied by Questions Unlimited. Our emphasis is light on popular culture and heavy on the acade...

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WOW did we bracket this tournament terribly. Was there a worse way to bracket the teams? All 7 teams from Michigan were in the same side of the bracket. I was kinda confused why we drove 4 hours, and spent a night in a hotel, when we could have just played the "B" side of the round robin ...

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Completely in agreement with Charlie.
You should look into running a HS tournament to raise money. Why? A high school quiz bowl tournament is great marketing for a small college, and you have more money to go to more tournaments. You and your school win.

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Coming from a team that is over 75% freshmen and sophomores (including grad students), I can say that the jump from IS packets to ACF Fall is not as much as it seems. Back in the days when CBI still existed, we read lower level stuff like our IS and junior birds, but you fail to improve as a player,...

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Prelim stats and playoff stats mean worlds more than combined stats. Prelim stats show how you did against the general field, and the playoff stats show how you do against similar competition. Just combining them doesn't show anything, as you have to know how to who exactly the competition was etc. ...

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MSU will be bringing at least 1 team, more likely 2.

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