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Zerowaltz wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 8:52 pm I will also be attending Brown

zeebli123 wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 5:26 pm Brown!

Damn right. Go Bruno.

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We have confirmed rooms and buzzers for this tournament. With the set nearing completion and the NSC just over a month away people should start officially signing up!

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For completeness, I'd like to post what I know about this situation. I'm told that Joseph Chung had access to the packets from this set beforehand This is from me. On Tuesday, Joseph sent me the following forums PM: Hey Anson, Would it be okay if we got the packets tomorrow or Thursday so that the r...

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RULFO is being mirrored at PACE NSC.

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12 minute halves are quite long, collegiate NAQT matches have 10 minute halves.

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Just commenting to say that it is in fact accurate that Blair is bringing 2 teams despite them being listed separately. If that's the case, given what Nitin said, then there are actually 19 teams registered for this tournament, I believe, unless another team was not fully updated. Bump. Can we get ...

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Just commenting to say that it is in fact accurate that Blair is bringing 2 teams despite them being listed separately.

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This is the same day as UMD's High School Terrapin mirror and will likely have a significantly reduced field because of that.

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Alright I'm willing to push it back to 7:00. Considering me and Michael are playing NSC in the morning I don't want to start too late.

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This is what we used yesterday for CAST and I can confirm they worked excellently! Good work to Hari and Shawn (but especially Shawn, go blazers).

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hasnak wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 1:16 pm Virginia/DC: Georgetown (4/13/2019)

Is this tournament now confirmed to be running on BHSAT instead of Prison Bowl as was initially considered/announced?

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Many thanks to the CAST team for letting us see the set before we hosted! We really wanted to get a chance to play this set before having it spoiled for us through hosting and it didn't disappoint. This was a very fun set to practice on. In return, I have tried to write up my thoughts below, Packets...

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Our team was pretty out of our league playing this set, but I just wanted to give my comments as someone less familiar with really hard quizbowl. A lot of categories seemed like they came up a lot, for example stuff like theology and Eastern thought seemed a bit overrepresented in the thought distri...

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The bonus part on Oscar and Lucinda said that it was written by Miles Franklin instead of Peter Carey, which caused us to get it wrong.

Abdon Ubidia · Re: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19) Is the field for this tournament still empty?

Is the field for this tournament still empty?

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18. In a poem by this author, a girl pulls flowers while a boy plays horse on stilts. This is from the first of the Two Letters From Chang-Kan, right? Is there a way to distinguish this from Pound’s The River Merchant’s Wife? Pound signs his "The River Merchant's Wife: a Letter" with &quo...

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May I see the Li Bai tossup? Thanks in advance. 18. In a poem by this author, a girl pulls flowers while a boy plays horse on stilts. In another poem, the speaker sees “moonlight before his bed” and imagines it is “frost on the ground,” then lowers his head and thinks of his homeland. This poet sta...

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The Hands Resist Him wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:01 pm
Deviant Insider wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:01 pm A bonus part on Revelation says it is in the Old Testament.
This wasn't fixed by the time of the MIT mirror last Saturday (causing me to incorrectly answer Malachi on that bonus)--just a heads up for any future mirrors

I missed this, it's fixed now. Sorry about that.

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This is a preliminary announcement for a mirror of RULFO at the 2019 PACE NSC. As stated in that thread, this set is difficult, but we believe most experienced players will enjoy playing it and maybe discover underrepresented content! Tentatively, the side event will be held on Friday, June 7th. We ...

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Bump. We were emailed that the tournament would be next week (2/23) but time is getting tight, is it actually going to be then (or some other confirmed date)?

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Milhouse wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:37 pm Is there any update about the date of the Johns Hopkins site of this?

The DC High School date claim thread has had it as 3/30 for a while, but I don't know whether that's for sure confirmed.

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Is there an update on a high school mirror of Terrapin?

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When is this likely to be mirrored? (specifically re: HS nationals)

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I'd like to gauge interest for a potential mirror of RULFO at one of the high school nationals. Particularly, if you think you likely wouldn't be able to play this during the summer at a summer open but would still be interested in playing, please vote in this poll. The set being mirrored at HSNCT/N...

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Re: Russian music, to clarify: there were tossups on Rimsky-Korsakov and Pictures at an Exhibition and bonuses on Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky as well as one part of a bonus on Shostakovich (the other two parts were not on Russian music). None of the questions specifically in the opera subdistribution ...

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1. In this poem, the central figure is compared to “a head in the freakish Atlantic / where it pours bean green over blue / in the waters off beautiful Nauset.” This poem describes “the Polish town / scraped flat by the roller / of wars, wars, wars.” The speaker recalls a “vampire who said he was yo...

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VCU is hosting a mirror of Florida Spring Tournament on March 23 (college) and a mirror of NAQT IS-177 on April 27 . FYI IS-177 was used by JHU earlier in the year so many DC area teams won't be able to attend that tournament (I say this mostly because on this thread the set for the Hopkins tournam...

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Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:48 pm Hey did like anyone ever like, proofread this set

If you have specific comments please join the discussion forum and post them there

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This tournament is now a platinum qualifier for PACE NSC! This means that the top 25% of the teams will qualify for the NSC in Reston this June.

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GDS and a couple of other high school teams were unable to play EFT at UMD because of UMD room reservation policies. Will UMD Quizbowl be working to be sure that they will have worked around said policies and be allowed by the school to host a high school mirror of Terrapin? Hi Matthew, we complete...

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Are out of state teams permitted to compete at this tournament?

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To continue documenting the changes to the set based on comments: the tossup on the draft now incorporates Matt's feedback, and the bonus on snow now incorporates Darren's feedback

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So, I actually negged this question after the first clue with "God," since my understanding is that a theodicy attempts to reconcile the existence of God with the existence of evil. I think if this clue stays in the question as the leadin it could be made less ambiguous. I've rewritten th...

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Oh also I think one of the finals packet had 5 history tossups and 2 fine arts tossups The 3 fine arts tossups in packet 11 were on Wyeth, Elgar, and the Louvre. The 3 fine arts tossups in packet 12 were on "three" in music, Donatello, and Don Giovanni. Neither packet had 5 history, maybe...

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Could I see the tossup on “the draft” from round 7? The leadin is extremely ambiguous. This practice was addressed in Cohen vs. California after a man was arrested for wearing an obscene t-shirt criticizing this practice. This practice was opposed by the “Baltimore Four” and more famously by the “C...

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If you played this tournament please remember to join the discussion forum!

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The discussion forum for RMBAT has been set up so if you played the set please request to join

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The discussion forum has been set up so if you played this set please request to join

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Iamteehee wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 2:16 am Wayzata A seems wildly overranked here, considering that they have no player that plays science, philosophy, social science or a significant portion of religion and mythology well.

We discuss this in the podcast.

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The discussion forum for RMBAT has now been set up. If you played the set, you can request to join and post feedback there.

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Comments about the difficulty, distribution, and general feedback about the set should go here. In particular, I'd be curious about what people thought of the genre-based literature distribution (as this was the first HS level tournament to ever use it) as well as whether any particular categories s...

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In this thread please post comments or suggestions you have about specific questions in the set. I'll be happy to post the text of questions here, but it would be nice to have a reason for the request. I have already added "Millerites" as a prompt on the question on Seventh Day Adventists ...

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When filling out this poll, please do not abbreviate team names at all. Specifically, please use the name of the team as it appears in the offical standings for last year's HSNCT (https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=8400.) In addition, please put a letter with every tea...

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One more thing: another teammate of mine negged the question on children in photography with "naked people" first line. Although I don't think that's an acceptable answer because the question said "a group of these people" it is a reasonable answer considering Napalm Girl is famo...

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There was precious little math. Apart from the tossup on root 2 that was really a history tossup, the only 2 math tossups that we heard (which was only the first 10 rounds) came in the same packet--pi (which was really a physics tossup but had a math clue first line) and orthogonal in round 10. If t...

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For the illegal immigrants tossup, my teammate said "immigrants", was prompted, said "child immigrants", was prompted, said "Mexican immigrants", and was negged. I think the tossup either would have benefited from a specific prompt or a better answerline. Also, Uruguaya...

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Updated rankings. Remember that they are still relative, if a team hasn't played anything, they will not appear here. RANK TEAM GROGER SCORE 1 Hunter A 115.7140152 2 DCC A 113.7138717 3 Wayzata A 112.0763889 4 Beavercreek A 107.0625 5 Miami Valley A 105.8833333 6 Uni Lab A 105.8767505 7 High Tech A ...

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Was there HSNCT qualification associated with this event? If so, how many teams qualified?

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William Groger, John John Groger, and Arjun Nageswaran have requested that I post these statistical rankings they have developed on their behalf. Only teams that have played a tournament this season have been included in the rankings, and thus they should be viewed more as a relative ranking of the ...

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Blair signed two teams up for this so I think the initial post has just not been updated with the field (although I don't know who else has signed up)

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