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If we look at what it says in the original post, it seems like the tournament would be 8 prelim games over 9 rounds, followed by 3 cross-over games and finals. In any case, I'm sure Matt will come up with something we would all enjoy.

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I'm glad to hear that people generally had a positive experience at this tournament. I know there were some logistical mistakes that I could have avoided simply by planning more throughly, so I'd like to apologize for my oversight. I'm slightly disappointed in myself, not because ending the tourname...

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WJIAT is now over. Congrats Gov. I expect to have the full stats up tonight. Thanks for coming today, and I hope you all enjoyed the tournament. Please refrain from discussing the questions just yet since I believe there is a mirror. Please feel free to post any comments or criticisms about the tour...

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rmgeokid wrote:With all the construction and whatnot, what entrance is the best for us to go in at?

Our front entrance is open. I think you'll manage to find out how to get in.

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So it seems like ACF #3 had power marks, which is awesome. Please tell me this tournament is using them.

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So, as it appears Quint will not be playing for Gov this weekend, is the opportunity available for a reincarnation of "Quint and Cameron A"?? I will note that this is hardly a "superteam" by any definition, so the question is really will small "open" teams be permitted...

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Hey, have you guys considered using HSAPQ questions or mirroring other quality tournaments? I think that would not only save you guys a lot of work but make other people happy.

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Prison Bowl question set is done!

Have fun everyone!

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I enjoyed this tournament a lot. One of my few regrets is that we didn't get to play either of the high school A teams, but it's obviously a minor quibble. I agree with Jerry's comment about bonus difficulty. The tossups (in particular the middle clues) were generally quite accessible compared to wi...

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One issue may/will be the time... when do you expect things to be over? Playoff format? How many matches? I'm thinking we would really need to leave no later than 4:30. I've updated the first post with the tournament format and schedule that we have so far. We'll try our best to be done with the fi...

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I will play.

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On Saturday night, beginning after the conclusion of the Saturday tournament and a dinner break (target time: 7 PM), there will be another tossups-only singles tournament. This tournament will use tossups, of a normal subject distribution, that first appeared in the HSAPQ fall four-quarter set. I'm...

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FredMorlan wrote:Also, complaining about how you think you're the ninth team in the nation but someone put you 11th is kinda inane.

Well, there seems to be a pretty significant gap between number 9 and number 10. I do agree that it's silly to complain about polls in general, though.

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I enjoyed this tournament fairly well, although I felt that it was less thoroughly edited than many other tournaments that I've been to. As other people have mentioned already, the questions were probably too hard overall. I didn't think the repeats were significantly worse than other tournaments. S...

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After this tournament, I'm ready to say without hesitation that Gov is the best high school team in the nation right now. . . . with all due respect to Charter and State College. The tournament was pretty fun, although it was somewhat more difficult than I had expected. I hope my screw-up didn't aff...

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I've already expressed similar sentiments in the Missouri thread few months ago, but seriously, what right does the school system have to tell anyone what he or she can and cannot do in their free time? What can they do to you for going to Richmond and spending time with your friends? I understand t...

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My top 8 would be exactly equivalent to Dan's except for a switch between Gov and SC.

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If Daniel can get anyone else, there may be a Whitman/mixed team. Hey Doug Graebner, is Whitman coming? They wrote a packet, so I would be surprised if they didn't show, but of course someone from Whitman should post about this. What packet? I certainly didn't write anything, and Doug hasn't said a...

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I'd like to apologize on behalf of my team for leaving early. I would have liked to stay and play, but my coach urgently needed to leave. This is the first time that this happened in the four years that I've known him, so I imagine that he had a very good reason for disrupting the tournament schedul...

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I apologize for failing to check this thread earlier. My hotmail account record indicates that I sent the WJ packet to grapesmoker at gmail.com on November 29th. I guess, since it's too late to get the discount, I should just reuse this packet for a tournament with a similar difficulty level?

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This is a reminder that this tournament is indeed going to take place. If you guys are thinking about coming to this tournament, please feel encouraged to register soon or express your interest here. Reasons to come to this tournament: awesome questions (and I mean it. edit: Guy means it, too), grea...

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WJ will bring a team.

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BuzzerZen wrote:annual reminder

I think seniors who get into colleges have and deserve the privilege to brag, but that's just my opinion.

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Matt Weiner's foresight scares me.

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Your weird spelling is killing me, pal.

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The questions were mostly decent, but you guys have much room for improvement in terms of logistics. And more orange juice for breakfast would have been nice.
Please send the questions at izumickk at hotmail.com

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cdcarter wrote:http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/gsacxvi.zip
http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/gsacxv.zip

Enjoy!

Is it just me, or can other people not see some of the packets too? I can't open docx files so I'd appreciate it if you could post the set with just doc files.

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I'm not sure that Jerry's assertion is correct, although I can only speak for myself. I unfortunately cannot come up with any Okri works off top of my head right now, but I know that he is Nigerian, and I know enough about other Nigerian authors to be able to rule them out and probably come up with ...

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I think what's been mentioned is all nice and good, but I think you guys are missing the key point. The important thing is not how you work but how much you work. You beat teams like Charter and Dorman by studying 20 hours a week when they only study 10 hours a week.

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Yeah, it seems like the top teams are much closer together than usual (i.e. compared to past few years), and I'm not sure that there will even be an 09 equivalent to TJ '05, RM '06, Gov '07, and Whitman '08. I hope we collectively can continue the good tradition of winning at least one of the two m...

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For those of you who were wondering: after the playoff brackets were over, the bracket with Dorman, SC, Robinson, and WJ had a circle of death situation, so we resolved that with half-packets. WJ beat SC in the first game and beat Dorman in the second game to get into the finals against GDS. I think...

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I think 2 is much much better than 1. A tournament with 32 teams is just begging for swiss-pairs (which shouldn't cause any delay - winner and loser each knows exactly where to go as soon as the game is over). EDIT: doing 5 rounds of swiss-paired games with 32 teams is actually really easy, so I don...

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I'm sorry that I won't be able to help you in any major way, but I will definitely send you some tossups if contributions are welcome.

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If you have 10 packets already, I would prefer a system that allows for teams to play 10 games. If you only have 9 and plan to write only 9, I guess what you have works.

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I thought we were already registered (refer to the third post in the thread). We should get a discount for super early registration.

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Dude, what does it matter? People know which teams are good and which teams aren't.

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I thought this tournament was pretty solid. UPenn people should probably explain what happened with the question source issue, since most people I've talked to were taken aback by the fact that you guys announced the change just two days before the tournament. With that said, although I would have b...

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Thus, the set will be comparable to what the original QuAC set would've looked like; that is, the top and bottom tiers of teams will find hopefully find it fun and worthwhile to play on. I certainly hope you are right about this. Two days before the tournament is not really a good time to change th...

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I thought the finals packet was fine, except for maybe few tossups and that weird science bonus on wells. It was very fun to play on, and it also differentiated the top teams pretty well. In general (i.e. I'm not just talking about HFT), though, it seems like a bad idea for writers to listen to elit...

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I thought this set was pretty exciting. I guess it was too difficult for a regular season tournament mirrored at a lot of different places, though; I felt pretty bad for one of the teams that I played that chose HFT mirror as the one non-VHSL tournament that it attends all year, and I kept on worryi...

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State College P/B 20.46; Hunter P/B 17.78; Gonzaga P/B 12.62 Wow, I don't even know what to say or do about the fact that a high school team got 20ppb on the "HFT hard questions," nearly 3ppb above Hunter and 8ppb above Gonzaga. I'm afraid of opening the HFT set that I just downloaded onl...

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MLWGS-Gir wrote:I'd also like to clarify that a statement brought to your attention by a certain person was mistakenly interpreted as more serious/mean-spirited than it was intended.

Yeah, of course, I know you didn't mean anything by it; bantering with each other is what homies do

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Hey Chuhern, you're most definitely underrating your own team.

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Please continue coming to our tournaments, teams who like reasonable difficulty! Yeah, I endorse this statement. This tournament was really well-run, and more than eleven teams should go to VCU tournaments. Also, since I forgot to make snide jokes at Sarah Angelo, I'm going to do it here: we crushe...

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Hey, did anyone videotape the finals?

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Oh, wow, stats. wonderful. Thanks Greyson.
I'm disappointed to see that my prophecy about WJ's ppb turned out to be false, though.

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Hey, you guys are making this too complicated. The problem is very simple: science questions in this set were too hard for the audience. It's not necessary to make judgment calls about questions being "real"/fraudable, interesting/stock, or med-school/HS level. A clue is too hard if it hel...

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For those of you who are interested: After prelims, the top 16 teams were grouped into 4 brackets. Gov (2) and WJ (3) won without any upsets, and Gonzaga (5) beat Hunter (4) by 15 points or so. Charter (1) lost to Kellenberg (9), and Kellenberg lost to TJ(8), creating a circle of death; it seems lik...

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If by some tragedy you guys lose two more teams before the 15th, I may randomly appear out of nowhere and play solo.

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No one needs to be apologetic here in asking TJ folks to get the stats up. I mean, if anything, it's TJ people who are being rude and irresponsible. Part of the implied responsibility that comes with hosting quizbowl tournaments is posting stats, and hosts who don't do it are failing their job . . ....

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