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Smuttynose Island wrote:
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Blanford's Fringe-fingered Lizard wrote: And no, the overall gain, when compared to that of more editing, is probably a ratio less than 1.

So then why do you or anyone include powers...?

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30 minutes would be the lower extreme I suppose. Even 2 or 3 hours would be a small time investment compared to the overall gain and overall time invested already. By consistency within a subject do you mean the physical location, or somewhere that would project to have a consistent percentage of po...

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There are solid arguments for powers being gimmicky and game-show-y. You are also severely underestimating the effort it takes to place them, especially when the set is nearing completion and everyone is tired from writing questions. How else can more elite players who answer questions earlier be c...

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If each writer powermarks his/her own questions, it can take 30 additional seconds. That person should be more intimately famliliar with the given topic

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Obviously, within the limits of modern quizbowl, along with points per bonus, Powers per game is one of the most important stats to indicate the performance of teams. However, housewrites have been inconsistent with inclusion of powermarks. By playing without powermarks, a lot of information about t...

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Just for visual reference, although not as big as the SAT in these parts, the ACT is on September 10th, October 22nd, December 10th, February 11th, April 14th, and June 9th

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anybody wanna make a date claim for next year? (The 1 year anniversary of the previous one has passed)

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The same reason infomercials or whatever start with "Aren't you tired of _______ " , well now there's the new product! I guess contrast increases the effectiveness. It's important to focus on the ultimate goal. As a community, we supply pyramidal questions and tournaments. The goal is to i...

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ok so like you read them bad speed questions and then you say "didn't that suck" and explain why it sucks thoroughly to people who otherwise have nobody explaining that to them correctly. Then you begin the novice tournament.

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So what I mean by that is in a vacuum, if somebody had never seen anything related to quizbowl before, and were told to write a question, that question that they write would not be pyramidal, it would be as your example, like a trivial pursuit question. The only significance of this is that newbies ...

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Just because something is intuitive, doesn't mean it's right.That why it has taken years to develop quizbowl to what it is. Without anyone really thinking about it, that is why

and it's ac are that way.

Maybe by intuitive I mean instinctual, that makes more sense also

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There's nothing wrong with playing some speed to liven things up. Pyramidal is counter-intuitive in every way. Biography bowl is intuitive, speed is intuitive, pyramidal is not. It is possible to have fun on speed and improve on pyramidal at the same time. Of course speed is not legitimate knowledge...

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I don't think anyone told them the rules, and stuff like that. Maybe there should be a standard procedure with a well-made info packet about quizbowl with strategy and how to get better. Basically all the most important info about quizbowl already available online, but in a nice printed packed to gi...

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Another thing that might be good is a better, less cluttered schedule of events for the year. Maybe a color-coding system with green for novice/easy difficulty, yellow for regular/IS difficulty, and red for anything above that, like Maryland Spring. Printouts of this may be handed out. Maybe a websi...

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Just RM kids, (including Ray and Arun). We're about 1/3 done with the tossups so far, in just over a week though. We have a total of 8-9 people working on it, I think it will be successful. You guys should do it too, its not hard if you organize the work well. EDIT- but get started sooner than later!

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lol i mentioned that

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Actually we're on that, writing a set that is not quite novice, but on the accessible side of regular difficulty. Between Fall Novice, NAQT A-sets, and what OACQ (Olympia) offers, and probably others that I don't know about, there is a lot to work with as far as easier pyramidal is concerned.

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I attended in 2009 after for whatever reason, we accidentally enrolled. I read all the criticism on the forums but couldn't believe how bad it was supposed to be. It ended up exactly as described with 3 hours between games, and terrible questions. The only good things were the air hockey table, pool...

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Here is a list of basically all the teams in the DC area: http://www.itsacademicquizshow.com/schedule/ Probably 2/3 of these teams have never been seen at a tournament of any kind. I have to imagine that there are kids who would enjoy quizbowl out there. Maybe a useful idea would be to emphasize the...

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Perhaps a Google Doc that had contact info for all possible participating schools could be made, so that info could be shared?

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Attendance at tournaments has been dropping somewhat over the last couple years (or at least hasn't been growing). However, a tournament like the Green Eggs and Hammond had a lot of teams that don't usually compete at pyramidal. Also, a lot of teams have been one and done, trying pyramidal once and ...

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Solid Sacha Baron Cohen filmography knowledge also would have given you 15.[/quote]

Guilty as charged

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Some sort of letter with a fancy logo on fancy paper in a fancy envelope using fancy words might help

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Might I see the tossup and stats for the Michael Scott question?

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The relegation tossup was transparent, so basically if one knew what it was, it could be powered, but if not, it would be hard to answer at all. Overall, an interesting tossup choice. I would like to see the reapportionment tossup from I think packet 1 because it seemed very odd.

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A lot of the geography was very hard, like a tossup on The Gambia

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The execution of the tournament was ridiculously flawless. The only minor issue was the ineffective elevators, but as far as my experience was, everything was good. Almost all of the readers were excellent, and the rooms were great. It was a lot of fun, and that was a good hotel in which to hold the...

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just wondering, what/who is Nondescript High School?

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I had never heard of Its Ac or quizbowl at all until 8th grade, when I was voted "most likely to win It's Academic". At that point I knew I was going to join the team at RM, and hadn't heard of pyramidal until I got there. Despite the unfairness of the format, i still receive some marginal...

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I'ma let you finish, but this was one of the best housewrites of all time.

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As long as the questions remain pyramidal and quality, it's all good. The 60-second round is meh, but at least it allows weak teams to not be shut out. If the questions were 20/20 with high difficulty, a large number of teams would be shut out and not want to return to the tournament again. After al...

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Were the bee results posted online?

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Richard Montgomery B merits strong consideration in the next rankings

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In this tournament, do MD and DC count as one state?

sir negsalot · Re: DCCAT (Novi, MI 2/26/11) lol THERE ARE TWO FINLAND TOSSUPS??

lol THERE ARE TWO FINLAND TOSSUPS??

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lol haha, but there are so many excellent mirrors out there, whose writers deserve their work to be used more often around the country

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Im not sure why that particular tossup was selected, but having seen the set on the archive, I agree about being lucky in our region. That being said, compared to the excellent questions produced by St Anselms/Torrey Pines as well as WashU, these are undeniably poor. Many of the tossups are on ridic...

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A high school tournament harder than ACF Fall?

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RM A got first, QO and RM B tied for second, but that was broken by ppb in favor of QO, and Whitman A came in fourth. The tournament was well run and the questions weren't bad at all.

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Thanks to Poolesville and Longfellow for signing up! Space is now very limited.

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Keep signing up! TJ, WJ, Im looking at you!

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(That was a thinly veiled ThreadBump)

sir negsalot · Re: FRIGHT: The Tournament to Keep Fear Alive @ RMHS, 10/30/10 Great!

Great!

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The tournament is under 3 weeks away! Keep signing up, spots are moving fast.

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NOOOOOOOOO This conflicts with the Colbert rally on the mall

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Prompt stats are an equally important virtue.

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The "early evening" is now gone.

sir negsalot · Re: Blue Hen XII (3/20/10) Newark, DE stats?

stats?

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I totally did try out, emphasis on TRY

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If there's a spot open, I wouldn't mind going but not playing besides maybe against alaska or wyoming and getting to put top 3 in national championship in a college resume, etc.

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