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I'm 100% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT fi...

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So from asking around today, I noted that Stefan D'Sa is headed to Yale and Anthony Stoner is headed to Notre Dame. Several players in our NAQT State field are graduating and attending in-state schools.

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MorganV wrote:
Steeve Ho You Fat wrote:While I fulfill 50% of those requirements, unfortunately HiiiPowers has no free roster slots.
Jake, build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs

after limitless indalecio demoralizes his teammates he will come crying for help anyway

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I was reading through this tonight and I noticed a bonus clued a non-existent essay by noted fake* Lithuanian poet Martynas Jablonkis. I know it didn't affect game play, or really detract from my enjoyment of what was an excellent set, but I think this is kind of a dangerous precedent to set. *well...

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If you either:

1.) need a sports and video game player, or
2.) are Joe Nutter,

You should PM me. I am fairly good at both of these subjects, although my super modern baseball and hockey knowledge is lacking, and I hate NASCAR.

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I will begin my retirement. How long I remain retired is anyone's guess, however I know very few people who are willing to bet on the "forever" option so there's that. I probably qualify as an old person now. I will probably still play every chance I get, staff things, and continue to find...

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Congratulations to Rice A for defeating Rice B in a thrilling final! Preliminary stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3734/stats/prelims/ Combined stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3734/stats/combined/ Thanks to Aurore Hamilton and Thomas ...

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I'm about 35% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSN...

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I'm 100% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT fir...

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So, how should I deal with this? It just sucks that after all this time I've spent studying for Quizbowl, going to practices even after it stopped being fun, going to tournaments and giving up weekends to continually come up short, going to summer camps and giving weeks of my life to this, that I s...

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Inifinite Jest wrote:I'm pretty shitty at high level quizbowl but I'd like to play this tournament. Hit me up if you're interested.

this statement not true

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Reading MattBo's post in the Watkinsgate anniversary thread reminded me of a topic that I wanted to discuss that I don't recall having ever been discussed on the boards. I'm sure pretty much everyone who has played for at least a few years has had thoughts of leaving the game at some point and it's ...

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Here are a few notes for the math portion of this year's CO: 1. I want to use your questions, so write good questions. 2. Math is a very diverse subject. While I want to use all of your submissions, it will probably be difficult to strike the perfect balance of topics using your submissions alone. I...

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Make Alabama Great Again (me, Dargan Ware, Bryn and Eric Douglass) goes 10-1 to win "stanford housewrite" mirror. John Milnor's Exotic Vacation (Billy Beyer, Nick Collins, Jeb Houston , Madeline Carlisle) finished 8-3 after the advantaged final. Prelim stats can be found here: http://www.h...

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in both cases the writer put in work to make sure he wrote a good question i think you're remembering the ACFNATIONALS writing process very differently than I am Can you show me any evidence you've ever put more effort into question writing? i've never seen a more flawless question than the one on ...

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So tossup 0 also has some unwanted side effects. Trash, when written well, is one of the ways we can make the game more accessible and fun to play for newer participants in the game. From empirical observations, people who are new to the game often buzz most confidently on things they're either extr...

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Field (2): (teams/buzzers/staffers)

Catholic - NI (1)
Jesuit (1)

Interested:

Jesuit (1+)

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Greetings all! The Louisiana NAQT State Championship will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016 , on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Building reservation is in process, so the exact building isn't known as of yet, but there's a really good chance this will take place in HL Grif...

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I'm looking for a biology/chemistry expert for this competition. You could be that person! If you believe you are in fact the person I am looking for, please send me a PM. I'll even put in extra study hours for you if I like you enough.

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Is there demand and/or room availability for a full weekend of events? (i.e. COTTAGE Bowl 2 trash tournament, Christmas Present beliefs and thoughts tournament, and Eyes That Do Not See visual art tournament) I have Dargan looking into reserving rooms at a local community college at the moment. He ...

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The field can be found here. Whether or not we join up depends on whether or not the A&M field materializes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =887633380

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Sorry for the slow reply. I’ve been in contact with other people at ACF about these problems. It is the duty of the hosts to post announcements for their site and to provide field updates. I’m not sure why Texas A&M didn’t. Subsequent to Jake’s post, I e-mailed to ask them to announce their sit...

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At the risk of looking like an idiot, it claims the derivative of sqrt(x) is 1/sqrt(x), which is wrong. Oh man, you're so right. I could have sworn I put a 2 in there-- Auroni must have changed it when I wasn't looking. My calc 3 class had a lot of differential forms for whatever reason, so I like ...

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11. An operation with this word in its name acts on a form the same way as would the commutator of another operation called this word and the contraction with a vector field, according to Cartan’s magic formula. In curved space this operation is generalized by adding a term which includes the Chris...

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The representation theory bonus had both a hard part and a CO-level hard part. By regular difficulty standards, knowing the definition of representation should probably be enough for a team to find their way to 30ing the bonus without much more thought. The Schur's lemma that was written about in th...

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A couple of comments: 1. Some of those threads don't have updated tournament fields. 2. You guys didn't provide a link to the Texas/Louisiana site. Wait, the forum page doesn't exist? This is the least surprising thing ever. 3. Given (2) and the fact that only two teams from our region turned in pac...

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Congratulations to Louisiana Tech for winning an advantaged final against St John's to win our mirror of MLK. Stats will be uploaded when I get a chance to finish a few things up.

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Prelims: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/
Complete: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /complete/

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As a friendly reminder, you are always welcome to throw me a pity vote.

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Field (6):
Jason Fern/Julia Tallant/Lee Holden/Palmer
Billy Beyer/Jeb Houston/Alex Gras/Nick Collins
Jake Sundberg/Dargan Ware/Bryn Douglass/Eric Douglass
Tulane (2/2/1)
Florida (1)

Free Agents (1):
Mark Morris (not the choreographer)

*updated as of 03/02/2016

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Greetings! I'm pleased to announce the South's mirror of "stanford housewrite" to take place on the University of Alabama's campus in Tuscaloosa. The tournament will take place on Saturday, March 5, 2016 , and as with almost all of my other productions, will probably start at 9:00 AM. A bu...

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Austin, we love you, we really do. We just want to play quizbowl. We want to enjoy the questions you spent months writing. Four, six, eight teams, what does it matter? You mention that our mirror of George Oppen featured four teams, however keep in mind that it was one of the first hard non-national...

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A few points: (1) The South (east) Is Large. There are some fairly obvious geographic reasons as to why very few of us Southern quizbowl folk don't go to tournaments at Maryland, Chicago, or Stanford. (2) The Voronoi diagram you used to come to the conclusion that there should be only three allowed ...

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When you understand the Christoffel symbols, you know it all.

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Even though it's a port from the Dreamcast, Pier Solar on the PS4 virtual store. which is something i still need to play, although i am tempted to buy the genesis first edition of which there are 800 copies. also disgaea 5 is fun so far edit: how can you resist exploding penguins? how can you??? ed...

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Dragon Quest Heroes is somehow wonderful.

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Field (6):
Louisiana (1)
St. John's (1)
Louisiana Tech (2)
LSU (2)

At the moment the field is closed unless additional staff is provided by participating teams.

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Greetings! The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Club for Academic Competition is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a mirror of Michigan's MLK tournament on Saturday, January 16, 2016. The venue and fee schedule are not yet known, but chances are fees will be pretty much the same as usu...

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I've spiffied up the stats for this tournament. They can be found here. The report also includes forfeits where necessary. As checking forfeit for both teams was not an option for one match, I just noted it as a 0-0 draw with 0 tossups heard. I'll do a little additional maintenance once the tourname...

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NickCahlfs wrote:Will do

At any rate, can you post the stats? I hate to be that guy, but you have posted here three times today so I figured I would ask just in case you forgot.

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Unofficial tournament results: Billy Beyer/Kevin Marshall led after 10 rounds at 9-1 ULL + Dargan Ware was at 8-2 Tulane 7-3 LA Tech 6-4 The tournament was called because it was after 7 and I think Tulane didn't want to stay any longer. Mr. Sundberg plans to force Billy and Kevin into a Skype final...

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I wouldn't be opposed to some additional quizbowl.

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The Matthew Hayes Invitational took place this weekend, with ESA A going 11-0, followed by Baton Rouge Magnet and University Lab. Overall, I was impressed with the level of play from the top teams. Stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3410/stats/final/ As far as NAQT sta...

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Congratulations to ESA A for going 11-0 to win the tournament! Baton Rouge Magnet went 10-1 to finish 2nd and University Lab went 9-2 to finish 3rd. Stats can be found below:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ats/final/

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Thanks for hosting once again! This tournament was oodles of fun. The staff and competition were all excellent.

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Can we get a field update?

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Congratulations to Louisiana Tech for going undefeated to win Penn Bowl. The standings can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3335/stats/prelims/ Finals will be posted soon. (And here they are!) http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3335/stats/combined/ Thanks to everyone for...

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Making an effort to go to every practice you can and taking notes in practice will be crucial to your success. Being at Yale, you have excellent teammates who can give you pointers on what comes up during tournaments. If you want to make an impact sooner than later, you should probably pick an area ...

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Outside of the usual national tournaments, Alabama played the main site of Penn Bowl in 2011 and the main site of QUARK in 2012.

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I do wonder where questions of our hosting competence come from, though. A club's reputation doesn't automatically get reset when new people come in, unfortunately. While I'm thankful that Vanderbilt hosted ACF Fall 2012, that tournament is a prominent example of why people think your club is incom...

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