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As an independent moderator, I don't like the idea of needing to reserve a break week in advance. That's just silly.

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Ukonvasara wrote:I'm probably in, assuming I staff ICT.

This.

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Nothing's going to beat Kaneland over Belvidere North, though. You just can't beat that.

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Tees-Exe Line wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio

That's really freaking awesome.

Also, I love that "pretty much just sat there" now applies to mountains.

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Superb_starling wrote:arguably the most stock clue ever

Either Grignard has just been clued as the son of a sailmaker or the definition of "stock" has changed.

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Let me first interject by saying that I think that R. Hentzel and Chad Kubicek (in my understanding, those two did the heavy lifting on the DII set) did a superb job creating a set that is both fair and accessible for nearly every team that played. That's a hard thing to do. It's possible that they...

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Another thing you can try is stopping the questions at the power mark and making everyone take a guess, then continuing. When the problem is tentativeness and not a lack of knowledge, I've found that really helps because people start realizing, hey, I DID know that! or at least, OK, I was already in...

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Michigan, Kansas State, and Lawrence, can you please confirm the number of teams you are bringing to this mirror. I would very much like to determine if I should consider bringing in outside staff. I suppose my edit was too sneaky, sorry; LU's going to the Minneapolis site. Though I'll talk to them...

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There's been a decent amount of downtime (including right now, by the way) on the new site - did you decide not to put the old TP site back up?

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I know there was a TU on the Grapes of Wrath (it provoked best-neg-ever candidate "The Wrapes of Grath!"), and wasn't there one on Steinbeck, too? I know this is kosher if GoW wasn't mentioned in the Steinbeck, but I thought I'd bring it up.

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Superb_starling wrote:Cup of Gold

I did laugh to myself when I read that tossup, even though I thought it was a fine leadin for the tourney... Wasn't Steinbeck's first novel being Cup of Gold the ACF writing guide's specific example of a bad leadin?

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Holy balanced scoring by DI Ohio State, Batman!

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In one play by this man, Old Ekdal is allowed to fire guns in the attic to relive his past as a great hunter. He created Thea Elvsted and the alcoholic Ejlert Lovborg in another play about the search for a "beautiful death." A third play relates how Nils (*) Krogstad blackmailed Torvald H...

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Yeah, if that's the case, I'd love to play this. Not at full price, and I certainly wouldn't drive from out of state to play it, but, like - who's up for a trash minitournament?

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Field update?

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Are there any other trash sets available?

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I don't disagree with anything you're saying, Mike, and like most people here I have no interest in playing an anime-centred tournament. But if Kyle's assertion that simply posting a distribution and not having an actual anime-centred discussion is acceptable (which is what happened in that thread....

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NAQT has recently been informed that an adult-themed entertainment convention will also be at the hotel the weekend of the ICT. The hotel has ensured that the other event will take place on a level of the hotel that no one associated with our tournament will be on, their events will have security t...

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Think we're down again.

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"11- Edward Furlong, Leonardo DiCaprio, or Johnathan Brandis. FTP, which one
has NOT had a hit single in Japan in the past year and a half?

A: JOHNATHAN BRANDIS"

Anyone know what the heck this question is referring to for the DiCaprio mention?

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Cheynem wrote:I will play if you can promise at least 10 packets of reasonably edited material and that some outside source (like Dan-Don) can verify it by the day before the tournament.

Yeah, this.

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Yeah, I think there's something up with the login feature right now.

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jonah wrote:We currently have six teams in Division I and ten teams in Division II. Registration closes on Sunday.

HAHAHA. Ok, I read this quickly thought that was UC registering its teams. And part of me believed it.

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Matt Weiner wrote:I think I wrote a tossup on Granada entirely in Spanish

Wonderful.

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Right now, it's requiring plurals - could you make trailing esses unnecessary or something?

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Word is that Lawrence is sending two teams, one of which is writing a packet. I'll double-check.

EDIT: Any teams they're sending will be going to Minnesota.

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I mean, is this officially trips/quads now? If so... Brad? Noah? Done and done; I emailed Noah and he also agrees. Cool. Get ready for the Thomas Egan "wait in total silence without conferring for four seconds and then give the correct answer to the bonus part" move. It'll freak you out b...

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I mean, is this officially trips/quads now?

If so... Brad? Noah?

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Countersuggestion. I'm just spitballing here, but hear me out: The IHSA (institutional legitimacy, sheer number of participating schools), Masonic (cash prizes, teams being sponsored by outside organizations, giant traveling trophy), and NAQT (support of/connection to national organization) state to...

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===NOTE: written before Brad's post was visible=== I'd express my thoughts on this with this XKCD comic, but it won't be visible until this SOPA protest is over. But basically, I think that creating a fourth state championship isn't the right way to resolve a problem that is basically "there ar...

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I'd like to play this and am looking for teammates.

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also, I'd like to hazard either "Oswald Cobblepot" or "Go On, Ask Him About Jeri Ryan" as a team name for me/Egan.

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Meaning that on average, a team from Fenwick has a 1/3 chance of winning the tourney.

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My sophomore year in high school we came across a moderator who read a question that was SUPPOSED to use the phrase "this warm blooded organism", although she said something somewhat similar except not at all. Another moderator once referred to our assistant coach as being "on the po...

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A moderator at a college tournament at Brown contributed quite a lot of new ideas for the expansion of the quizbowl canon, including the tournament debuts of "Austrian aborigines" and Heracles' labor to defeat the "Namibian lion." Was there a tossup on Neanderthals? EDIT: I have...

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A trash tourney ten miles from my house the day after I take the LSAT, you say?

I'm in as a free agent but may join with Lawrence's team(s) if they play this.

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Major congratulations are due to Mike for a really smooth tournament - a 9:00 start, nine rounds, a 75-minute lunch, and I was home by 3:30. Crazy, I know.

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dtaylor4 wrote:This morning, John told me the field is at 18.

And that's an 17-team list, so there's only one team missing.

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Dorman won that match to finish third, by the way.

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What's the deal with the possible side event?

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I can't see why I wouldn't do this. So count me in.

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Stats: prelims playoffs overall Unfortunately, all the playoff rounds are missing bonus data, and all the playoff rounds except the finals are missing tossup data — that is, rounds 6–9 have only match scores entered. I have asked Ms. Greene via email what will be done, if anything, to rectify this....

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I'm in - maybe with Tom Egan?

Either way, sign me up.

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...hilariously, I'll be at NU that morning taking the LSAT. Sooo I guess I'll stop by afterwords and see if you need an extra staffer or coffee or something.

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This, on the other hand, was deliberate--sort of a morbid joke/final extension into absurdity of the old model of difficulty-racing in Asian lit questions combined with a genuine curiosity and desire to test knowledge of that stuff. I'd argue that the pyramid isn't as steep as you make it sound, bu...

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Not sure if anyone's mentioned it yet, but I recently got a used copy of A Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill. So far ut has proven to be a goldmine for pre-WWII Western European history and I suspect that it will be just as good when it gets to the war. Although Churchill's writing ability makes...

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is that SO, ihsa.org?

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Well, yeah. Either way, my original post was about Cesc, and that was actually an error.

Note: also, Barca isn't the hard part, CONCACAF is, so I withdraw my other point.

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Spanish team in the Champs League final should never be a hard part - reduces it down to a 50-50 guess even for most non-soccer fans. I think you overstate the number of people who even remotely follow European club soccer. It's not an issue of "follow"ing. The people who know a lot or a ...

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[10] Manchester United lost to this Spanish team, led by Ibrahim Afellay and Cesc Fàbregas, in the 2011 UEFA champions league final game. This team is sponsored by UNICEF, Qatar Foundation, and Nike. ANSWER: Football Club Barcelona [accept Barca and F.C. Barcelona and Futbol Club Barcelona] Afellay...

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