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MorganV

"Streetlight manifesto... is that related to giacomo balla?"

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7:17 Mike sorice informs us that mcdonalds will not let you get non integral amounts of hash browns since employees won't be able to figure out what pi hash browns is

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supposed departure time: 7:00 AM
Current Time: 7:10

"Yeah, I'm just making them wait because I'm a dick."

He then chugs the shit out of a mug of coffee

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Hello, I am an unidentifiable figure who has hijacked Morgan's phone, and now partially this thread, which shall now contain information about Mike Sorice's trip to the NSC (this may just be "questions are read for 11 hours and he answers many of them)

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Matt Laird's name is spelled wrong in stats.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed this tournament and was glad to play it and get possibly my all time favorite buzz. Similarly to mike Cheyne I declined to play playoffs because I was falling asleep at the buzzer

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I once lost a match to Dylan Minarik partially because I said "triwizard tournament" for a tossup on what I think was the ryder cup. So there's that. we ended up winning our quarterfinal match against LASA at HSNCT, but my team has never stopped giving me shit for negging a tossup on &quo...

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the return of AHAN wrote:I know that Barrington HS has reserved a spot for PACE. HSNCT bumps up against final exams and they're not jazzed about having that sort of conflict.

yeah that would sure be a shame

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Now that this is a real tournament, will the writers be paid?

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christino wrote:I will once again inquire into the existence of a regular-minus event in the fall; if it's not happening, I would encourage someone to pick up the effort.

Be the change you wish to see in others

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I predict that IMSA finishes T-13 for the fourth time in five years

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How were the playoff assignments made?

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Steven Hines wrote:Anyways, the tournament goes well up until we play against Loyola in playoffs and lose - we got demolished on every category except science and trash.

I apologize on behalf of Loyola for any and all negative externalities we exacted on the greater qb community by winning our first playoff game

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Cheynem wrote: I do think there was some overly specific trash answerlines (a supporting character from Phoenix Wright?)

Could I see this tossup out of pure vanity

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A few stylistic things that bothered me while reading: I agree with Jonah on the quizbowlese in this set; in particularly WAY too much "identify this so-and-so". This might just be a pet peeve of mine but "name this so-and-so" will suffice in pretty much any situation and is easi...

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Auburn B's top player is actually one Steven Vo, with Usman playing on Auburn C for several tournaments. My apologies. Replace Auburn B in the rankings with Auburn C, with the same comment. I also intentionally left out IMSA B as their roster is inconsistent and Salij may be on the A team going for...

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As I'm bored and always relish the opportunity to steal Dylan Minarik's thunder, here are my thoughts on Illinois quizbowl post-first semester: Top Tier: Auburn Evan Pandya has had a meteoric rise over the course of the season: 10/5: Earlybird, 47.73 ppg en route to third place behind Stevenson and ...

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Will the skype mirror be closed and packet-required?

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-Catholics: Does this part on "real presence" do enough to disambiguate it well enough from "transubstantiation"? I'll readily admit to being uninformed if it does. If someone posts it, I'd be glad to be schooled in some Catholic doctrine. [10] Impanation argues that this doctri...

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I may have an unedited copy of the packets, but the Everything that Rises tossup in packet 1 claims O'Connor wrote a short story "Parker's Case"; the story is "Parker's Back".

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Kay Li and I did not play the Round 1 game against MSU B so we should each have one fewer game played

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Yeah, I assumed something like that happened. Just wanted to point it out for future mirrors

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The leadin for Master and Margarita seems to be poorly worded: "7. In this novel, Varenukha’s shadow ceases to be visible after he is bitten by a young redhead vampire. Hella, that character’s companion, goes by Koroviev and meets the landlord Bosoi after Berlioz is decapitated by a streetcar.&...

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For HSAPQ sets, IS sets, and some housewrites, there tends to be more reusing of early clues out of necessity (for HSAPQ and NAQT who need to write tons of questions every year) or laziness/inexperience (housewrites). Given the proliferation quizbowldb/protobowl as studying tools, which let players ...

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Dylan in the last round actually went 0/11/1, not 11/1/0 as he's credited in the stats.

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ankmaster wrote: if they're even half as good as last year

Let me assure you that you have nothing to worry about on that front.

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Also, I ask people to be aware that traffic near DC and construction near Richmond are as constant and predictable on fall Saturdays as bad high school tournaments run by Princeton Nothing huge, but I feel that potshots like this are unprofessional and nonconstructive and I think that senior member...

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bt_green_warbler wrote:
MorganV wrote:I most notably remember the final question of round 4 of the playoffs was a Diana Wynne Jones tossup that decided our game against Maggie Walker
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This appears to have actually been a tossup on Ursula K. LeGuin.

yeah, my bad, it was negged with DWJ

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Is this a new thing? I don't remember it being a problem until this year's HSNCT. It's probably not as big a problem as I'm making it sound, but I've just always been slightly annoyed whenever it's happened, especially seeing how lit is the smallest of the three "major" categories in NAQT...

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AlexLiu wrote:I just really wish NAQT would leave YA/children's lit out of the lit distribution.

Is this a new thing? I don't remember it being a problem until this year's HSNCT.

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If you really enjoy social studies (and what is happening in the world around you), you may find NAQT's distribution to be favorable towards you. A "colossal advantage"? No. I personally disagree. The idea of an "NAQT boost" can be almost blatant at times. For instance, of my tw...

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It doesn't affect the placement, but you mistakenly gave my vote for Rockford Auburn (IL) to... another Rockford Auburn (IL) at the bottom of the list.

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I'm somewhat curious who people think is playing on Chicago B.

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Will the ICT continue to have a 32-team field?

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Cheynem wrote: 14. Stanford--lose no starter, gain Roger Cain

+Ian Torres

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You appear to have left out Ladue (like, obviously this is pre-season and you're spitballing on little information so it doesn't matter, but with all due respect to only-senior-on-Ladue B David, plugging either of returning A-team members Ben/Jialin into his missing spot here would have turned a T-...

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wd4gdz wrote:
Make sure your seatbelt is fastened wrote: Roughly 30% of the tournament has been written thus far, and it is on pace to be completed by late May. The tournament will feature thirteen 20/20 powermarked packets.
Is the set finished?

Did we ever get an answer to this rather pertinent question?

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I don't know why nobody is mentioning Loyola. I mean, after all, we have Coach of the Year nominee Matt Laird who is clearly responsible for all of our success since 2007-2008. I mean from telling us that the bus leaves half an hour earlier than it does so that I don't screw up us attending a tourn...

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Would "pregnancy" have been acceptable at any point for the finals tossup answered with "childbirth"?

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Out of curiosity, does PACE already know what the 72 team schedule will look like?

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When you think about it, America already has a disproportionate number of questions dedicated to it compared to the rest of the world - 1/1 per packet dedicated to a single country with only 350 years of history to draw upon. Honestly, the easy answer is that European and American history is emphasi...

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Christ, I Know wrote:Could I see the tossup on indifference curves in the finals? Even though it had a 100% power and conversion rate, it seems like one of those outlier difficulty tossups.

stuff that is not yet officially clear please wait until NAQT posts the all-clear for this year's IS sets

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HSNCT went pretty well. For a basic look: Worst finish for an IL A team: Fenton, 4-6, 169th Unless I missed something, they were also the only Illinois A team not to make the playoffs, as well as the only one to finish under .500. Belvidere North finished the prelims at 9-1, and Loyola of course fi...

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I would very much like to watch the final, but I cannot yet find it on iHigh. When should I expect to be able to watch it? iHigh was not at the tournament. Open call: Any rogue recordings taken from this tournament? (I am obviously personally most interested in Loyola's games against Bellarmine/Bla...

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Edit: this was already on the blog oops

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Given that there seem to be more than enough moderators (I think I counted fifteen), perhaps two more teams should be formed. That opens up the scheduling options, especially if you can scrape up another packet? 20 teams = 4 divisions of 5 = 5 packets Then rebracket into 4 quads = 3 packets I sugge...

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It doesn't matter that much, but in interest of accuracy, Joe Burke (12) did not play this tournament and his two games should be credited to Rosie Frehe (12) who is listed in the stats as "Rosy". She didn't get any tossups either way.

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Could staffers please add their emails to the docs?

EDIT: Also, could you please indicate whether or not you would be able to bring a laptop to read from?

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If something triggers your buzz, take advantage of the time you get after a buzz to pull the answer, if you can. In the few seconds it took for you to remember that answer, the other guy might beat you to the buzzer if you don't buzz right away. ITT Dylan explains how to get your neg levels on par ...

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I will be attending Chicago and intend to outscore noted bad quizbowler Max Schindler.

edit: sounding less pretentious

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