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The end of this Sunday (4 days away) is the deadline for getting these in. I have a backlog of polls to acknowledge receipt/scan over, which I'll clear tonight.

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This was my favorite of the pre-nationals sets that I have ever played. Uniquely among sets fitting this niche, it felt as if the tossup answers were extremely carefully and meticulously selected so that a pretty wide swathe of active college teams could play without ever feeling overwhelmed by a de...

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To help me with my ballot, I assembled a spreadsheet with Nats and ICT stats for a number of players, as well as Visual Arts stats for various other players. In case it helps others, you may find it here. If you would like to edit this spreadsheet, perhaps by adding other subject area stats, please...

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If the amount of effort needed for one person to produce a ballot is prohibitively high, I’m open to allowing multiple people to collaborate on one. It’ll only count once, though, and not and something multiply-co-signed by the individual people, and I will not allow the same person to submit a ball...

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settlej wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2019 1:07 pm When are ballots due by?

Last year's gave two weeks. Since this year's is a bit more involved, I think a full month is fair, so get these in to me by May 19th. Opening post has been updated accordingly.

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Curiosity: why are there separate polls for visual and audio arts, but not for any subcategories of the big 3? (I understand that "misc." covers this to a certain extent.) This was done due to a general sense that most people under consideration are good at all four categories of literatu...

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I'm running this this year. In an effort to circumvent the incredibly tiresome annual debates about ranking methodology about generalism vs specialism, and in a bid to extend recognition to a wider swathe of players who deserve it, this year I am running a series of polls . There will be one "o...

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I have updated the first page of this thread with the question set and the answer spreadsheet, so that people can see who wrote what, how things are coded, and can easily find questions that they want to pull up.

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In tournaments like ACF Nationals where most players only have a few tossups per game, missing a chance because of a bad answerline really screws with the experience and prevents people from being rewarded. Even if people can protest, they may well not get the points they deserve if the protest doe...

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Now that I've been made aware that this happened, I'll know to provision for Cantonese pronunciations/variants in my future writing and if I find out that others have been similarly affected (and their answers denied), I'll apologize to them. What I don't take kindly to is the insinuation that write...

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You're right, sorry we didn't do our due diligence by consulting with a panel of white guys who are extremely into Asian culture. I thought the point of quizbowl was to reward you for being interested in learning about lots of cultures, and that the entire point of this tournament was to try to rep...

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A few important answerline related notes that I wanted to mention: 1) Please include Cantonese answers in tossups on Chinese mythology . I used moderator discretion at this tournament to accept a Cantonese variant of "Nezha" pronounced with an "L," as a lot of younger speakers o...

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Second, can I get some clarification about the answer line for the tossup on the newspaper industry ? I buzzed in with "printing", got prompted, couldn't pull the answer, and was negged, which made sense at the time, but discussing with some people after, I was told that in some rooms jus...

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The final two (mostly) unheard packets of ACF Nationals will be read on the Discord at 9 PM EST tomorrow, and the questions will be posted in short order after that.

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I’d like to note that this is precisely what we did — so that we would be able to complete the planned number of packets. We did receive significant help, but those questions, like all submissions, had to be edited to fit the quality and vision of the rest of the set — rarely was a freelance questi...

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Thank you for your kind words about the set, Chris. But, on the other hand, it's ACF Nationals. I have to believe that if the editors had sent up a flare two months ago and requested some help, they could have brought in two packets worth of freelance contributions. If we need to pay a bit more, or ...

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My approaches to visual arts and biology have been detailed elsewhere, but I'd like to elaborate upon my approaches to my most interesting and novel assignments: Geography, Current Events, and Other Academic. I used Kenji's excellent work in GEODUCK as a model for the geography at Nats -- cultures/c...

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Because there's no clear reason that math should beat out any number of equally deserving things for a 1/1 slot among 20/20; if, hypothetically, the standard quizbowl tournament were to be 24/24, then I think math would have a case.

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Thanks to everyone who played and staffed ACF Nationals this year and congratulations to Columbia on their hard fought and well deserved victory! I was heartened by the excellent level of play I saw from every team that I read for and the accompanying frequent bouts of excitement and joy at peoples’...

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An Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:57 am I would strongly prefer this being in August, but I realize I'm likely close to the only one

No, you're not.

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I'm starting a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Will I be there for 4 years? 6? 8? Stay tuned. In any case, I plan to play for as long as my schedule allows.

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Again, novel and important content is ok in a hard part, but (a) not all the time and (b) you still want to have some reasonable expectation of someone actually, you know, answering it. If you just want to make people feel humbled, tape-record a monologue instead. I'm looking forward to playing thi...

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To seriously address the original topic of the thread: Nobody is intentionally trying to create an unbuzzable leadin, they're making a best guess as to what might be knowable by an expert in the subject or by someone who has read widely, but that hasn't been touched upon by previous questions. If we...

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May be if people knew more they would buzz on more first lines

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This is far more flagrant and unacceptable than Matt Jackson or playing ACF Fall or Mike Sorice playing IS sets, and also much less funny.

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It seems like I've neglected the packet submission form for some time and we've accumulated teams that are interested in submitting. As we still need usable raw material, I've created a third, -$25 deadline for submission three weeks from now: Sunday, March 10 . If you want to submit and haven't yet...

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We will continue to offer an additional $50 dollar discount to any team that writes at least 20/20 that doesn’t need any major editing (packets requiring relatively few changes to clues, answer lines, or grammar will qualify). I have a few questions about this discount. It's been offered at least s...

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If I've gotten in touch with you about submitting packets for the $100 deadline, I'm announcing a one-day extension due to MLK day.

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This is a hard college-level difficulty tournament whose proceeds are going to charity. It seems like a hard college tournament like ICT would be the best place to run this to maximize audience and that furthermore this should take precedent over events which are not for charity. What tournaments t...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Pusha-T - Daytona

#7: Lucy Dacus - Historian vs. #2: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Snail Mail - Lush - This was hard as hell for me to decide. Be the Cowboy has peaks that are more sublime than the peaks on Lush (for me, the bop-like nature of "Remember My Name," the ending of "Nobody," the transition from the opening exaspera...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 - I love them both but I have to pick my most listened to of this year. #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 ...

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The inclusion of Bollywood under the pop culture distro is a separate issue, which will likely be inhibited by the lack of accessibility to those films as a part of mainstream American culture. I suppose this might be true of mainstream American culture as it is conceived of by white American audie...

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Golran wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:04 pm Thank you to a mystery sender for French Literature: A Very Short Introduction!

Hope you like it!

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! - sucks that this was a first round matchup, because I really like 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...

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Not long ago, I was speaking with several other people active in what I'll call the "national tournament staffing circuit," and we agreed that we're not philosophically opposed to staffing the tournament, provided that it was situated somewhere that would minimize the expense that we would...

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As an update, I have created a form to coordinate the optional packet submission. Additionally, all inquiries about ACF Nationals 2019 can be sent to our email address, [email protected].

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The aquaporin tossup, in addition to being inappropriately hard, should have included an explicit "do not prompt" on "porins." The two are from completely distinct protein families, and it would be like prompting on apples for an answer of pineapples.

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Of the six bids that we have received for ACF Nationals host site, we have selected the University of Pennsylvania.

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I'll focus on two of the biggest fixable systematic problems with this set in this post: 1) Missing Pronouns/Referrents. Jacob and Andrew both mentioned this, but I want to highlight how big of an issue this was. In several tossups in this set, more than half of the sentences seemed to have no indic...

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The deadline for this is next Sunday.

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Hello all! ACF is currently seeking a host site for ACF Nationals, to be held on the weekend of April 13-14, 2019. You can bid to host ACF Nationals using this form . We are looking to receive as many bids as possible from many different institutions. Completing the bid form should take about 30 min...

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30 schools and 35 staffers have filled out the survey. Both groups overwhelmingly prefer the currently announced weekend of April 13-14, 2019 (14 out of 20 schools, and 11 out of 16 staffers who indicated a particular date preference). Based on this data, the tournament will still be run at the indi...

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I have disseminated a survey to potential teams and staffers about the date of this year's ACF Nationals. If you or a member of your club didn't receive the link to it, but you'd like to weigh in, please PM or email me.

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After internal discussions, we have moved the date of Nationals one final time to the weekend of April 13th and 14th to make it easier for us to recruit the highest quality staff. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Hey everyone. This is the announcement thread for ACF Nationals 2019, which will take place on the weekend of April 13th at the University of Pennsylvania. This tournament will be edited by Alex Damisch, Andrew Wang, Athena Kern, Andrew Hart, Ike Jose, Jason Cheng, JinAh Kim, Jordan Brownstein, Matt...

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Still, I am skeptical of the idea that questions like that one, or even questions on easier writers from underrepresented groups, are going to be an important part of attracting more players from underrepresented groups to the game. It seems like that task overwhelmingly has to do with our culture,...

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I absolutely support efforts to, say, ask about more significant works by women (which all in all I think this tournament DID succeed at), but I don't know how people can really believe that long-ass tossups on Young Jean Lee (did anyone convert this?) are going to expand the number of people who c...

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Several people deserve thanks for this year's Chicago Open happening: Will Holub-Moorman, Jordan Brownstein, Seth Teitler, Eliza Grames, Joey Goldman, and Jacob Reed (who also served essentially as co-head editor in the final few weeks) for editing with me, Stephen Eltinge, JinAh Kim, Rohith Nagari,...

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