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I'm still planning on having this run on CO Sunday, but I won't be able to make CO this year, so I'm looking for someone to run things for me in exchange for 20% of the revenue. If you'll be at CO and are interested in doing this, get in touch! I'd also love to see the questions played in person, th...

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I don't think "one of these buildings" or "one structure of this type" or something similar works, because the Palazzo Pitti is also a museum and the Palazzo Vecchio is also a town hall. That's precisely why the identifier is "this noun" - but I take your point that &qu...

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Could the tossup on "palazzo" be posted? I'm curious as to the reasoning for not outright accepting "palace", or for giving a specific prompt instruction -- at the Northwestern site, two players with clear knowledge answered with that, were prompted and confusedly said something...

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I agree with the theory behind your post, that we shouldn't ask about states in literature when it tests trivial knowledge that isn't important to the context of the works. But I don't think that's the case for the questions in this set. There were three "states in lit" tossups, one of whi...

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The every.buzz detailed stats aren't quite ready, but I'm releasing the detailed stats spreadsheets for each individual site and for the combined sites. Please read all the information below before you view the spreadsheets. Overview The aim of detailed stats is to provide more data than standard st...

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14. The bodhisattva (“boh-dee-SUT-vuh”) Manjushri is most commonly depicted riding one of these creatures. One of these creatures nurses King Gesar (“GEZ-er”) in a Tibetan epic. It’s not a dog, but according to Okinawan legend, one of these animals caused a boulder to fall from heaven and crush a d...

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Two small errata, both on giveaways. I believe calling "Ezekiel" a "minor prophet" to be wrong, and "Ouranos" is not the husband of Rhea. I've fixed these two errata, thanks for pointing them out! 7. This figure is deemed a watchman for the people of Israel who will be...

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4. This man became exceedingly wealthy by throwing peeled branches into watering troughs (“troffs”) to make sheep have spotted and striped offspring. This man condemned two of his sons after they murdered all the men of Shechem in retaliation for the rape of their sister. On his deathbed, he condem...

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Something I noticed about the literature in this set is that there seemed to be a very notable number of tossups on countries in the lit. I heard several players remark on how that was sort of frustrating. I'm not confident that it was a problem so much as a preference, but I figured it was worth a...

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Yes, Rebecca contacted me about that protest; I ruled against it because though all the clues to that point apply to "beliefs," they don't all apply to "justified true beliefs." The previous clue was: To attain one status, these states must be linked to their objects by “causal c...

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I thought this set was pretty decent overall, but, echoing what Jacob, I felt like there was significant difficulty variance across categories. The history, for example, seemed like it could have played well at MUT or NSC, which isn't necessarily problematic, but was kind of jarring next to some of...

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I was aiming for this year's Regionals to be similar in spirit to last year's but a tad easier, but I definitely needed to do a better job of coordinating that between categories.

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This thread is for the discussion of the 2019 ACF Regionals set. First off, many thanks are due to my fabulous editing team: Rob Carson: geo/CE/trash/other, visual OFA Will Holub-Moorman: painting, philosophy, social science Dylan Minarik: myth, religion (taking over from Matt Bollinger, who wrote t...

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I just sent an email with links to the scoresheets and packets to the hosts. If you're hosting and don't receive such an email in the next few minutes, let me know.

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The initial post has been updated with a final list of half-packets received, including the discounts for teams that submitted an optional half-packet by the no-penalty deadline. If anything looks wrong, please let me know. The following (non-house) team has submitted a packet but hasn't yet officia...

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Reminder that tomorrow is the last day to submit a half-packet!

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Lit playtesting in a few minutes!

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:33 am I've also created a Doodle poll for biology playtesting - if you're interested, please indicate your availability here: https://doodle.com/poll/nt8tq9m8k25k7e2y

I'm planning to playtest the bio tonight after the lit - starting most likely around 10:00 (both of them in the IRC, as before).

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I've also created a Doodle poll for biology playtesting - if you're interested, please indicate your availability here: https://doodle.com/poll/nt8tq9m8k25k7e2y

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The remainder of the lit questions are written, so I'll be running a relatively short session to playtest the rest of them; I'm planning on this Wednesday at 9:00 PM Eastern, if enough people are available.

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The first post has been updated with a list of packets received by the +$50 deadline. A couple reminders: 1) If you've submitted your packet but don't see your team in the first post, please let me know. 2) January 20 is the last day you can submit the packet if you want to play the tournament, and ...

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The first post has been updated with a list of packets received by the +$25 deadine. Reminder that the +$50 deadline is this coming weekend and even steeper penalties accrue quickly after that, so get your packets in soon!

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Reminder that the first session is tonight!

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Mitski

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ErikC wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 1:57 pm I'm interested in playtesting - will we get the email the night of or sooner?

Tomorrow just before playtesting starts, I'll send the details to any playtesters who show up in the main channel (#quizbowl).

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Mitski
Lucy Dacus

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Back in my day, Discord was just what you used to connect dis buzzer to dis lockout system.

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I'm going to use this thread to organize playtesting sessions for ACF Regionals. The first such session will be this Saturday, January 5, at 9:00 PM Eastern, when I'll be playtesting a bunch of lit. I'll post a reminder later this week, but if you'd like to join and you're no longer in school, pleas...

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Mitski
Kids See Ghosts

Kacey Musgraves
Janelle Monae

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimit...

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Bollywood is an interesting case because it's a huge industry but is very underdiscussed in Western film criticism and therefore underrepresented in canons like TSPDT. (Ignoring Ray and Ghatak, who worked outside of the popular Bollywood tradition, there are only four Bollywood films on the current ...

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel #1: Kids See Gho...

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A reminder that the no-penalty deadline is this Sunday, so I'm hoping to get lots of new packets in my inbox this weekend!

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theking259 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 6:40 pm Thanks for the fields list. I’m assuming that detailed stats will be taken again, is that correct?

Sorry for talking so long to get back to you on this. We will indeed be using detailed stats, though individual hosts you don't want to can opt out.

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Update: This will be played as a side event on CO Sunday.

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15. A man gives a thumbs up while inclining his head towards the viewer in this artist’s painting The Lunch, whose composition is similar to his Farmers’ Lunch. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Spanish artist of Las Meninas. ANSWER: Diego (Rodríguez de Silva y) Velázquez [10] The aforementioned g...

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Could we get a link to the fields (from google sheets). I'd rather not post a public link to the sheet since it has people's phone numbers in it, but anyone curious about the field for a specific site is free to email me. Update: Cody helpfully created a version of the sheet that just has a list of...

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theking259 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:05 am Could we get a link to the fields (from google sheets).

I'd rather not post a public link to the sheet since it has people's phone numbers in it, but anyone curious about the field for a specific site is free to email me.

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The first post has been updated with a list of teams which submitted by the -$50 deadline.

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Teams which don't have to write a packet can get a $50 discount if they submit by the no penalty deadline (December 16).

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Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:59 am The registration form doesn't seem to be working. It states that I need permission to access it.

Just tweaked a setting, so it should be fixed now.

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The United Kingdom site will be hosted by Oxford-Brookes.

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I haven't seen the question on semantics, but in my experience it is often contrasted with syntax.

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The initial post has been updated with a list of the mirror sites, aside from the United Kingdom site, which is still TBD. Note that the Northeast site will most likely be co-hosted by MIT and Harvard but physically located at MIT; there will be more details when the announcement for that site is po...

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Definitely by CO, possibly by nationals season.

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I've written close to half of it already, so I may as well announce it officially: the third, and most likely final, iteration of Scattergories will be ready for mirrors in 2019. If you've played or read the other two, you'll know what to expect. The difficulty is Very Hard, the subjects are things ...

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The deadline for host bids is at the end of this month. I've received several bids already, but there are still a number of regions with no host bids yet, so if you're thinking of bidding, please do so! I've gotten several more bids, so thank to those who've contacted me! I'm still looking for host...

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My logic in writing the question was the exact converse of that: the order is pyramidal because you can buzz on the second clause with less precise knowledge of Malinowski's career. Of course, you can also buzz on the first clause with partial knowledge, as you did, but you take a risk by doing so.

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The deadline for host bids is at the end of this month. I've received several bids already, but there are still a number of regions with no host bids yet, so if you're thinking of bidding, please do so!

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Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament* (either as a college student or as a high school student) prior to September 1, 2016 is required to submit a half-packet. House teams from host schools, as well as teams composed of people who ha...

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