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Hi everyone! To shift the discussion to the set itself, I'm very honored to be editing this year's iteration of NASAT. I am aware that last year's set had issues (many of which were the result of a rushed production schedule and no fault of the editors), so I've tried to approach this job with a con...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel #1: Kids See Gh...

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jonpin wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 2:09 pm I have not edited any of the abysmal opinions expressed above, but know I'm eyeing some of y'all suspiciously, and that if you find yourself in the passenger seat of my car, some of you will not have radio control.

I will not stop stanning Lil Pump, old man.

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Good 1. Feel It Still: It's one of the three songs on my "being productive" playlist for a reason 2. Gucci Gang: Still slaps 3. This is America 4. Thank u, next 5. One Kiss: 2018 was a very good year for Albanians in the music industry. 6. Delicate 7. King's Dead: I can't tell if this woul...

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What if,,, Connor was just listing examples rather than giving an exhaustive list of good staffers and taking this personally is kinda silly

Note: this is not a judgment on the validity of Connor's arguments

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I heartily second everything in Alex's post. I realize this may seem odd coming from an elderly 19-year-old with an acronym or two in his sig, but I felt pretty much the same way you did upon first finding the forums. I know the sheer amount of information people seem to take for granted that everyo...

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18. One artist in this movement used the “soak stain” technique to depict Nova Scotia in pastel pinks, blues, and greens in Mountains and Sea. For 10 points each: [10] Helen Frankenthaler was a member of this movement, which Harold Rosenberg described as producing “apocalyptic wallpaper” in his ess...

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hftf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:00 am Static visualizations are now available.

Because SGI is not clear, access is restricted (username: oscar, password: espla). You must obtain access via this private forum.

These visualizations are excellent. Thanks for making them!

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* Not to mention the fact that—and it must be stated explicitly that no member of Chicago A has, to my knowledge, ever made such an argument in public or in private—the potential for a large upset two rounds in a row would be possible legitimate grounds to critique a set. The fact that this argumen...

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Yeah Kentucky actually seems like it'd have fewer local staffers than other sites.

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Here's a team formation spreadsheet for those who want to form teams

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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I invite you to make and post your list of the 25 best history players in the greater Naperville area OK. 1. Me, the most important part of this list and also the protagonist of reality 2-25. The first 24 people in your dumb list lol Govind, Asil, and Arjun should also be in there somewhere but I d...

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It's pretty cruel to make a list of the best history players in East Naperville and leave out regular Naperville

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Although Wikipedia tells me that "Matins" later apparently came to refer to a different prayer service, in the time period being referenced it was generally accepted as an alternate name for Lauds, appearing in Chaucer and other authors as a synonym. Although you can make a case that I was...

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basically agree with everything Jakob just said, including the point about Baudelaire and Glengarry. I do want to point out that Balzac is the hard part of an art bonus, while the easy part is Rodin. Oops; I got my wires crossed. Balzac as a tossup answerline is a lot less egregious for this level,...

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Disclaimer: I'm taking off my "person who edited some history and Geo/CE for this" hat to make this post; this is entirely about categories that weren't those. I thought a pervasive issue with this set seemed to be that it seemed to be written with distinguishing between good teams in mind...

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While I have no issue with going long distances (including to Minnesota!) for tournaments (and neither do my teammates ), we remain under budgetary and "no one wants to drive 9 1/2 hours"-ary constraints that people telling us to "suck it up and drive" and petulantly threatening ...

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Just posting here to say that this new OSU site is likely the difference between Michigan State attending this tournament and either not doing that or paying exorbitant sums out of pocket. I applaud the editors' decision to announce it.

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While I'm at it, the two different questions describing people who are very much not known primarily as historians as "this historian" were somewhat grating, at least for me. Theodore Roosevelt especially cliffed a bit when the question decided to stop describing him as a historian. I'm no...

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Some people in the Discord mentioned "terrible history common link ideas." Would like to discuss this - which of the history common links do you think were bad? Hidalgo is an obvious example. Hidalgos and Miguel Hidalgo are completely different things that it doesn't make a whole ton of s...

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May I see the tossup on the Han Dynasty? It confused me because the leadin referenced the Forbidden City, which wasn't built until over a milennium after the Han fell.

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I'm not sure if this is really an issue, but the book in the leadin of the cookbooks tossup has a name that literally translates from the Arabic as "Book of cooking". In an ideal scenario, that tossup might've been altered to reward knowledge of the history of cookbooks rather than languag...

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I really enjoyed playing this set. A few feng shui challenges aside, the editing was quite strong, especially when it came to keeping difficulty appropriate and consistent throughout. My only major concern lies with how world history was handled in the set. Way too many packets had a "world hi...

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DROP Ankush Bajaj
ADD Boyang Jiao

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Stats are up. Thanks for your help, Jonah! (For future reference, it is perfectly possible to list someone else's email as the contact on a stat-database entry you own)

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I'm working on converting stats from this from QBWiki to SQBS since Jonah seems to show no interest in doing so. Stats should be up within a day, which in my opinion is a reasonable amount of time to make people wait for accessible stats in a standardized format (as opposed to, say, at least three m...

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Thanks to everyone for playing this set! With the British mirror complete, it'll be posted to the archive ASAP.

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Given that the logistics issues I expressed concern about earlier in this thread seem to have come to pass, I would recommend giving more heed to community feedback in the future. Setbacks like this happen to us all, but I'd be concerned if the issues with this tournament were to be replicated next ...

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Thanks for working on this, this will be useful to a lot of people. Will all of the staffers' information be available on the front page, or will viewing information of staffers near you require entering a query? If the former, will this be indexed by search engines? If the latter, are the people l...

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(This is the same as a thread created earlier in the collegiate section, but also seems highly relevant to high school) Given that connecting outsiders willing to staff and tournaments that need outside staff is a persistent problem in QB, Matt Mitchell, Ryan Rosenberg, and I are working on a projec...

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Given that connecting outsiders willing to staff and tournaments that need outside staff is a persistent problem in QB, Matt Mitchell, Ryan Rosenberg, and I are working on a project that should help remedy that. The following google form represents the data collection stage of what will eventually b...

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Stray thoughts on the history distro: I also found the history quite military-heavy and noticed a lot of hard parts that weren't terribly clear in the reasons for their notability (Zyzzyx and Loretta Walsh stand out). The Ayutthaya tossup seemed like too difficult an answerline and dropped Naresuan ...

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ADD Hari Parameswaran
DROP Tora Husar

Eric Chen
Hari Parameswaran
Matthew Lehmann
Berkeley A

Alternate: Vishwa Shanmugam

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Sorry if this got confused; I wasn't trying to imply that you can make meaningful cross- category comparisons with this; using a single threshold across all categories was a somewhat arbitrary decision.

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I made a list of teams and people who BPA indicates are very good at various categories (players with single category BPA above 25, teams with single category BPA above 30) (apologies for the formatting; this is copy-pasted from Excel). Brad McLain (Illinois A) Illinois A 32.955 Beliefs Kai Smith (C...

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It looks like community opinion on this change (which, in my opinion, is a bad idea for the reasons outlined above) is pretty much unanimously against it. I realize NAQT is very busy, but can we expect a response on that soon?

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I applaud your ambition, but rather than trying to run two tournaments at once, it might be more advisable to run the SCOP mirror without the individual tournament. I realize this might reduce your revenue a bit, but providing a quality experience to all the teams playing this tournament rather than...

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Is an updated announcement coming soon?

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In chess, it is my understanding that there are tournaments, say, for players with Elo of 1000-1500, 1500-1700, etc. Know how strong the people playing your tournament are. Chess has reduced "how good a player is" to a simple number, and made this number trivially easy to look up in an au...

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Geriatric trauma wrote: ↑Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:09 pm I'd suggest that "scored over 100 points per game at any high school tournament using standard scoring" should be added to that list of criteria.

I agree

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NAQT implementing its own eligibility restrictions would be good, but in the absence of those hosts need to step in.

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Novice tournaments can be a very valuable tool for outreach (one of my current teammates was first motivated to study seriously by a positive experience at a novice tournament, in fact). This is why it is crucial that players playing novice tournaments are all players that can seriously benefit from...

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This might get mirrored later this month in Britain and will subsequently be clear.

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I don't want to be the annoying stats guy, but is there any chance stats from this tournament could get posted to the DB soon?

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Our A team of four gaunt white boys will destroy you all

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Several thoughts: 1) The art distribution seemed very very 15th-17th century-heavy, with modern art suffering as a result 2) Some hard parts seemed borderline impossible (that one Siamese monarch and the Reservoir de Manicougin come to mind) 3) Middle part difficulty seemed to vary quite a bit; I'd ...

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Michael/Jakob substitute Tracy Mirkin for Alston Boyd.

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http://hsquizbowl.org/blog/collegiate-q ... n-preview/
Thanks to all the kind souls who pointed out errata; a more correct version of the writeup is published at the above link.

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I haven't gotten blog posting permission yet, so here's the writeup if anyone wants to preview it (also y'all can stop bugging me about this now).

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An Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:54 pm Thanks to everyone who participated in the writeup! With the assistance of Naveed, I'll have a preview out within the next few days.

Naveed and I have finished writing this; it will be posted on the blog as soon as I have permission to do so.

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