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The NAQT style guide mandates staunch "quiz bowl" partisanship. Most newer circuit folks go with "quizbowl." Hopefully we can all come together with peace, love, and a mutual understanding that "quiz-bowl" is just dumb, and that hyphens should be reserved almost entire...

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If you have a car on campus, you can practice with us in Fairborn on Fridays at 6PM on the fourth floor of Millett Hall.
EDIT: I don't remember the exact room number, but if you come out of the elevator and turn right, it will be the first door on your left.

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In addition to going to MUT, the Ohio quizbowl community usually tries to gather together every summer to play some below open difficulty tournament somewhere in the Columbus or Cleveland area. Also, if you want to scrimmage us in Fairborn, I think that Emily would be okay with that. It seems that a...

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Was it just me, or did there seem to be a whole lot less world literature than there's been at various tournaments I've volunteered at in recent years? It seemed like there was less than there is even in an IS-A set.

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Godrich and Kid A are both definitely clues that people are likely to buzz on if they know things about Radiohead, but in my (admittedly inexpert) opinion, they're not out of place in this tossup relative to the later clues Kid A is out of place - I think that 99% of the people who are going to buz...

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I had a really fun time even if I didn't win any real games. Thank you for hosting this. Lyz didn't make the trip to Lexington at all, so the one round that she's credited for playing should go to Heather.

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My internet connection crashed tonight around the time that I was filling out Wright State's registration form, and so I just wanted to make sure that you got it.

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If the snow that's forecasted for tournament day actually does amount to something, is there an alternate day that the tournament would happen? Also, we might be bringing a second timer.

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Is there any shorthanded discount?

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I had left before the final match started, but it was Sycamore v. Northmont. According to Twitter, Sycamore won.

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After a few months of Ohio State's registrar being a jerk, I will be enrolled as a continuing education student at Wright State this fall. Unfortunately, if I go with you and I'm assuming David to tournaments, I'd have to write a packet, so I'd probably not be going to much. If you have a team of pe...

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Communi-Bear Silo State wrote:Chris Chiego and I will be running the blog and liveblog for this year's HSNCT, which can be found here.

Will there be games webcast on iHigh like there were last year?

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Did anyone see yesterday's match? How many times has a tiebreaker come up? I've never seen one before. My mom said she saw one, at some point. I was also shocked that Benedict Arnold was a triple stumper. There was one about two years ago, and there was one in the college tournament many years ago ...

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While the Trumbull County Prep Bowl doesn't use good questions like the league in Mahoning County does, it is closer to Buffalo and some of the teams other than Warren G. Harding (who obviously travels) have also left the county to play a good tournament or two.

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I think that in the case of the conferring, the fact that they are used to seeing University Challenge where Jeremy Paxman says "You may not confer, one of you must buzz," and are still allowed to answer is the problem. If they enforced the rules better on the British quiz shows they're us...

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The Worthington Hyatt is right near the endpoint of the COTA #2 line, which is one of Columbus's most frequent bus routes. Taking it to campus would be about a thirty minute ride. It's schedule is here: http://www.cota.com/assets/Riding-Cota/Schedules/Current/002h.pdf The Dublin Hyatt is right near ...

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In case anyone is wondering, Northmont A is in the process of playing in an advantaged final against Dunbar A.

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There was once a Purim bonus that a team of four Jews was answering that I accpeted the motion of shaking a gragger when the answer was "Haman".

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What was the conversion rate on the anvil tossup that everyone kept talking about in the state tournament set? And could you please repost that tossup?

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One question that I thought was cool was the Tajikistan toss up. Could you please post that one? Much of this nation's southern border lies along the Panj River. Khorugh, the capital of its autonomous province of Gorno-Badakhshan, lies on the (*) Pamir Highway, and the Anzob Tunnel connects its sec...

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Mr. Flowers, did any of those coffee shops help sponsor your team, or did they just get some inadvertent free advertising?

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Does the small school playoffs have a loser's bracket? And if so, is it only double elimination if you have a 5-5 or better record and the 4-6's get eliminated with one loss?

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I was curious about whether or not the painters from Ohio was an actual example of a bonus because outside of the Henri dude from the Ashcan School, there doesn't seem to be any real significant painter that would be within MUT difficulty.

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There were four regions until my junior year of high school. At the time, a similar number of teams participated as today, but with no limit of how many teams could attend a certain regional, there were so many byes that one year, my team noticed that our baseball team was playing at Northmont (whic...

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Congratulations to Harvard on your 385-330 win over Minnesota in the final.

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Will Montgomery College be counted as a community college team?

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Copley, Olmsted Falls, and Solon (probably in that order) are the three best teams I've seen in Ohio this year, with the caveat that I have yet to see Northmont play. In the most recent poll on the Ohio board back in December, Northmont was a unanimous first, Olmsted Falls was an almost-unanimous s...

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The Eminem question caused people to wait until the end because the a slide that was still in power looked like him enough that people thought it had to be someone else. Outside of that, I think that this was a good tournament, and I especially enjoyed the Jimenez Hall tossup even though someone els...

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You only have the teams that made the top bracket at the Ohio State site, not all of the DI teams.

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Is the visual trash tournament going to be one big free-for-all, or a singles/doubles/quads event? Anyway, whichever it is, I would like to participate in the visual trash tournament unless the numbers work better without me.

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How about if someone said "Closed Doors" instead of "No Exit"?

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Northmont beat Olmsted Falls A 375-275 in the final. The other teams that had won prelim brackets were Parkersburg and Walnut Hills A. The other teams to make the top playoff brackets were Chattahoochee, Adair County, Copley, and Danville A. More official people will post more official results event...

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What about BOKCHOI?

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I agree that this is quite interesting. Were Awty International and Youth Initiative real teams, or just hypothetical statistical barriers?

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I think the 13th packet would be useful if you did five brackets of eight, then eight brackets of five with the top two brackets being mixed of first and second place finishers from the prelims, and then a final placement game. Or doing the same thing with six brackets of seven and then seven bracke...

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Most translated common philosophy texts are pretty inexpensive.

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Yahoo news informs me that the works of Bon Jovi now qualify for the ISHA fine arts requirement.

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Most people would know what "In The Know" or "Brain Game" are, and many central Ohio quizbowlers refer to quizbowl after the "In The Know" TV show instead of using the word quizbowl.

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It seems that a bunch of short-notice conflicts are coming up for this weekend, so I am no longer expressing interest. I hope that this tournament is successful.

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I'm "expressing interest" as a free agent. I should know more about whether I can definitively show up in early July.

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Morraine Man wrote:Has the set peen publicly released yet? If not, I would like to acquire the rights to mirror this tournament.

In the mirroring/collaborating for tournaments thread in the discussion section, it appears that this set is still open for mirroring.

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Have you decided if you'll ask NAQT for an IS-set or an A-set? There's an Ohio tournament going on the same day, but I may try to convince my team to go to this, depending on which set is used. Isn't the tournament in Ohio that is happening on 11/20 using the 40 rule and happening about as far away...

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-JV (and MS) will mirror the Fall Kickoff Tournament in Ohio. What set is this, exactly? I can't find a board post announcing this, but I might just be bad at looking for it. It's an mACF set that is being written by various people from the Ohio message board, some people from Manual, and the Boise...

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Charlie, it seems that most of the bagelled science tossups in both this set and the HSAPQ set that you wrote about in another thread were physics tossups. Were most of the competitors at the two tournaments that you give data for young enough that they hadn't yet taken physics given when most Misso...

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Maybe collaborate with other high schools that could also write a few packets for a tournament and just have it mirrored at each of the packet-writing sites.

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I believe the some combination of Chris Ray, SteveJohn Guth, and/or Jeremy Eaton may have some more packets.

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Did you transfer to Escambia or are there two quizbowlers named Kay Li?

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I would like to see you specify which attributes of playing bridge are beneficial for quizbowl.

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Have stats for this been posted anywhere? I heard that some team pretended to be the Ohio NASAT team.

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Dan-Don wrote:Where does one find a list of teams registered for ICT? NAQT's website confuses me...

Click on the invitation links for DI and DII, and the field is presumably the teams that are listed as having accepted their bids.

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