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Thanks to the six teams who showed up and contributed to the packetset. In an intense showdown, Drake defeated Illinois A 430-60 on the finals packet. We were able to get in twelve rounds in the prelims (with teams playing in all games except the one in which their team wrote the packet), during whi...

A week before the tournament, and here's what I have for registered teams: Dorman High School (1) Holmen, Wisconsin (3) Armstrong (2) Mounds Park (1) St. Thomas (2) Roseville (1) Eden Prairie (3) Detroit Catholic Central (1) Wayzata (1) However, I know that there are other teams out there who are lo...

Cool. I mostly enjoyed the Keller and Richtler sets, so I hope this is similar. I did notice that those tended to skew old with the stuff they included (definitely not as much as TRASH, but noticeable for those of us under the legal drinking age). This may be in large part because we read them when ...

What is going on here? The University of Minnesota is hosting its first ever open collegiate tournament weekend this October 18th. There will be lit, trash, and video games side events, which will take place on Friday night, Saturday night, and all of Sunday, respectively. What about Deep Bench? La...

I've never had more fun at a tournament than at the original lit singles, so of course I'm up for another.

I can say that the school that has been selected to host ACF Fall Southeast is going to host on Sunday. I'm still soliciting bids for ACF Fall in other regions, so please email me at limozeen@gmail.com if interested (we have selected sites in the Texas-Oklahoma area and Southeast, but we're still lo...

Hey, so after editing two packet sub tournaments this year, I'd like to maybe start a discussion about responsible packet sub etiquette. Please don't submit your packet on the day of the tournament. It's just irresponsible, and it really puts the editors in a bind, especially if it's a packet that n...

There should be a few pre-Socratics though. I mean, Parmenides, Anaximander, Thales...these guys came up with important ideas that are still discussed in modern philosophy, plus they're really fascinating.

Since we have 13 packets and just five teams, we can take extra teams into the field without packet submission.

Slightly reneging on the +$200 penalty from before, you can play for $150 per team, or $100 per team if you're high schoolers.

We practice at Coffman Memorial Union from 5-8 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays. It's in Room 305.

Our tournaments generally run around $70 per team, base fee, with the average team paying somewhere around $10 less than that. I don't know what kind of costs are involved with joining NAQT's Thursday-night league, nor do I know what kind of entrance fees are charged at NAQT's regular-season tournam...

See, replacing Garcia with Pitino would replace the only part that I know with another part that I know. I mean, I could get Wes Unseld from better clues, and I know "Never Nervous Pervis" [no Ellison], but I think you're pushing it any time you're asking newer players to name historical s...

I read this too, and it is really too bad. Armstrong is one of the more competitive high schools around here, and I know Matt Quinn pretty well, and he's a good guy. Mike Parks, one of the players on our DI ICT team, is a graduate of the Armstrong program. Hopefully someone steps up and keeps these ...

I didn't know Andrew Toney, but Kyle Korver was a bad clue. He's easy, and if you're up on the NBA, you have to pause for a second to think if it's going to be the Sixers or the Jazz.

Yeah, I tried to make it clear that "unless otherwise impractical" this should be done. It doesn't work for some bonuses, so I'm not arguing for it in the extreme.

Could it be that they intend that to be the hard part? Or just make it not ridiculously easy. I mean all over the world of mACF there are bonuses like this: <obscure clue about famous work> ANSWER: famous work (middle part) <famous work> is by this author of <lesser works> ANSWER: famous author (ea...

While I think there are a number of things that made this set slightly less than ideal (and it was still a good set, don't get me wrong), the one thing that was the most detrimental was the way that bonus leadins, and also bonuses in general, were written. In general, unless otherwise impractical, w...

I am aware...

cdcarter wrote:
theMoMA wrote:More complete results.
Any chance of getting round report?

Also, this was a great tournament, good questions and run very well. Thanks!

I'll see if I can get Robert to compile a round report.

More complete results. Teams: 1. Eden Prairie A [defeated Chaska 455-260 in the final crossover bracket game, which both teams agreed to play as a one-game final] 2. Chaska A 3. Wayzata Area 4. Eden Prairie B 5. Hopkins 6. Holmen A Individuals 1. Michael, EP A [21 powers, 135.71 PPG] 2. Sam, Chaska...

Athena Starwoman wrote:I thought there was a mirror of this in Minnesota sometime in the future.

Confirm.

Please, go ahead and talk about the questions in here. But could a mod please change the thread title to tell Minnesota people not to read it?

That question is fine and pyramidal, but that's not what most high school math tossups look like. The argument that I and others are advancing is that there is something fundamentally different between a good, academic, pyramidal tossup, and one that essentially restates the same question with furth...

28 [1]. Learn things
29 [2]. Press button
30 [3]. Get points
31 [4].Win game

ImmaculateDeception wrote:25ai1'. If you suck.

This work's title is an anagram of "Add Louses." To find the name of this title, it might help to know that the second word is plural, five letters long, and starts the nineteenth letter of the alphabet, and that the first word starts with a "D." For 10 points, name this title th...

Mitu wrote:Field update?

The above is the final field, barring last-minute inclusions.

The Holiday Inn Express in Waltham is the official party hotel of ACF Nationals 2008. It's just two miles from campus and costs like $70 per night, plus all the cool kids are staying there.

I have a plane ticket, so I'll be there. I'll also keep suggesting that you run it Friday night, but it seemed like most people initially preferred Saturday night. It would have to start pretty late on Friday night, wouldn't it? The HSNCT website lists the practice rounds going until 10 PM. I would...

Seems like you could add a lot more datapoints if you used teammate-on-teammate matchups too. Also, it really seems like there should be some kind of correction for teammates. I don't know how this would work, but it seems pretty obvious that this system is going to underrate players who play with g...

Field update: Chaska (2) Eden Prairie (3) Hopkins Holmen (3) Roosevelt Roseville South Wayzata I have another half-dozen or so teams who have expressed strong interest, but haven't gotten back to me yet. I would expect 15-20 teams in the final field. Lit Singles will NOT be held at this event; we wi...

If you email it to me ([email protected]) I will put it on the e-internets for all to see.

Edit: HERE IT IS (PDF link)

Any Minnesota high schoolers who aren't scheduled to play MUT with Sam Peterson... Chris Carter and Andrew Anthony of South are putting together a second packet and looking for teammates. If you're willing to help out with some packet-writing, you too could have the experience of playing MUT. Send m...

Packet talk. Here's the field I have confirmed, and the status of their packets. Illinois A - done Magin + Hart - done Maryland C + Hart - done Gautam - done Peterson + Gehring - done Jeremy Hixson - done Drake - done Chris Borglum - done Illinois B - done Chicago - done Rob Carson - done Quentin Ro...

The rules say that as long as the consonants are correct and in the right order, the answer is correct. So assuming you were playing a m/ACF tournament, B_r_d_n [insert vowels] is correct; stop whining about it!

Hey U of M folks -- How's the field for 3/15 looking? We plan on bringing at least a couple teams I believe. Any out of state dignitaries playing in this event? Charlie Dees was hoping to make it, but he couldn't find a reasonable flight. I will have an update on the field for that tournament in a ...

At any level, I really don't mind when players say that they don't put in the time to become competitive players because they just enjoy competing and occasionally winning a few games. However, I will vehemently object when this turns into admonishing top teams for being good and working hard at thi...

If you're looking for a place to post the stats: http://tc.scobo.net/tc/tcapp/new.aspx is that site I was telling you about.

A short treatise on first tournaments.... One thing I've noticed is that newer programs tend to not know what to expect at their first circuit tournament. This is one of the biggest barriers to getting new teams on the circuit, I think. There are a lot of teams used to being competitive or somewhat ...

BuzzerZen wrote:
Kyle wrote:I'd be willing to bet on Dartmouth in Div II. They have a beastfrosh.
The term is "beast frosh" Kyle.

ESPN actually used this exact term to describe Michale Beasley the other day.

Skate or Die wrote:I emailed Nik at Olaf about it already.

KEWL

Alex Friedman and I are both definitely interested in attending the Cvi mirror but we're looking for a team to play on. If you guys can get somewhere close to EP/Chaska/Chanhassen, I can pick you up and take you there. My cell is 612.270.456 (zero, just in case there is some spam harvester here). Y...

I encourage any team looking to capitalize on packet discounts to send me an email. All you need to say is that you're planning to write a packet, or half-packet.

[email protected]

Thanks.

New Field Update:

-Dorman High School (1)
-Greater Sioux Falls HSA (1)
-Holmen, Wisconsin (6)

Please get your registrations to Rita Otto, at ottox131 --at-- umn --dot-- edu, as soon as you can!

This tournament is in just over two weeks, and I know of several interested teams. We have only one confirmed reservation so far though, so please get your registrations in soon so we know how many staffers we need to find! Send them to Rita Otto at ottox131 ---at--- umn ---dot--- edu Also, this tou...

Maybe this is a bit hard to believe, but it was a scant year and two months ago that Paul Litvak posed the question (and some rather pessimistic answers) about the future of quizbowl five years down the road. I'd like to revisit this a year later to begin a sort of state of quizbowl symposium. The t...

I just sent a final rallying cry to EP members to see if we can put together a team complete with drivers / chaperones. So we'll see. For RATRACE or Cvijanovich? If it's the latter, I will likely have a few open seats in my car, and can pick people up from their homes or EPHS. I believe Rob was pla...

Skate or Die wrote:Minnesota may be UG-eligible, but our two most likely fourths are a fifth-year undergrad and a med student, so if they come we're out this year.

It's now more likely that Minnesota will be Undergrad-eligible, as our fourth will likely be a fellow sophomore. This could change, however.

Maybe we should also tell them that we're going to test whether your son/daughter/student has seen movies that glorify underage drinking and depict lurid public sex scenes, has listened to artists whose lyrics advocate domestic violence and murder, has learned stuff about of celebrities who are famo...

Midwest teams, The last two packet deadlines are fast approaching. Please contact me at limozeen@gmail.com if you plan to write a packet and compete in this tournament at the Minnesota site. Also, since there is a mirror on the 22nd, I have moved the last submission date up two days to give us time ...

Just to give my 2 cents, whatever they're worth: In the end I think that the whole "appropriate subject matter" discussion comes down to a pretty simple test: whether or not you would be comfortable explaining/elucidating on the topic to participants who aren't familiar with it. Contrast ...

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