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A song about barley for each prediction: I predict me and Aiden will continue our developing inter-team rapport by mouthing "nice" to each other after buzzes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRiKeg7TPg - Corn rigs an' barley rigs I will continue to get mad at people who assume interests o...

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How did people like the Buddhism in this set? I was using answerlines that (to my knowledge) haven't came up in quizbowl before (but come up in Buddhist Art History/Religious Studies classes). It's a small part (1/2) of the set, but I was curious to see how it played out.

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Competition is unhealthy. It sounds like you're stressed out and see parts of your life as meaningless. I don't blame you, waiting to hear back from colleges is stressful. Still, you should focus on the good quizbowl has done for you. Why don't you make a cup of tea and draw something? I was bummed ...

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"Imaginary Communities" I hope you didn't get points for saying "Imaginary Communities," because otherwise you should give those points back. I'd say it was just a typo, but, while we had a bye that round, I did turn to Stephen and confidently show him my notebook, where I had w...

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I don't want to hammer this point too hard, because it seems like the discussion is getting a bit sidetracked, but obviously the way a quizbowl subdistribution is filled is not by having X slots, making a list of the X most-important topics in that particular area, and then writing X questions on t...

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Of the anthro: liked the "Imagined Communities" (I assume Chris Ray wrote it, no?) and the "celts" TU disliked the Benedict TU. Please package her ideas in more imaginative ways than duuurrrr this woman wrote about that country Japan durrr here's a description of minor, lame work...

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Really enjoyed the Anthro in this set (as an Anthro major). The mention of Appadurai (even tho I find him... prolix) in the India TU, the "salvage ethnography" bonus and the truly fantastic "documentary" TU all spring to mind as examples of quizbowl talking about things people in...

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Whimsy is fine if it's not determining who gets to go to nationals and who doesn't . I'm glad to hear that Jason wrote the tossup as an "interesting approach" to the subject instead of on account of any notion of potential humorous value, but in any case it was neither humorous nor intere...

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The question on George Zimmerman's paintings was a terrible, terrible idea.

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Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:
theMoMA wrote:I don't think it's an affront to Isaac to say that whatever image you have in your mind likely surpasses the objet itself.
lame

Here's a (fairly poor) picture of it.

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theMoMA wrote:I don't think it's an affront to Isaac to say that whatever image you have in your mind likely surpasses the objet itself.

that's fair

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theMoMA wrote:Thank you, Isaac Kirk-Davidoff, for the collage of North Korean film quotes. I don't understand any of it, but it's certainly unique.

You're welcome!

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:
Sam wrote:I'm not sure what this sentence means, as is.
That's awfully charitable towards the rest of the sentences.

Why do you have to throw that shade Rob "Snarkson"

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Of course, our team at Penn Bowl was lacking in Grace and I. Obviously, it's no great shakes if I'm not there. But Grace is the shining green light of the Yale Quizbowl team.

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Carrie and Lowell is good, but Sufjan has made several albums that are better than it, if you ask me, like Seven Swans (maybe my favorite) and Illinois. Although I'd agree with you that both Seven Swans and Illinois are better than Carrie and Lowell, I don't see how this has any relevancy to the to...

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I remembered disliking TPAB a lot when it came out, but in the interest of fairness I listened to it again last night. It still sucked. Musically, there are very few inspiring songs/songs that I would like to listen to again: in fact, there are a lot of songs that I actively disliked listening to (...

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To Pimp a Butterfly. Carrie and Lowell is good, but Sufjan has made several albums that are better than it, if you ask me, like Seven Swans (maybe my favorite) and Illinois. TPAB actually influenced protest culture, remember. That's not easy for an album to do! For someone who started going to demon...

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I hate musicals, so TPAB. Butterfly also is a really great album.
I dislike Tame Impala, so Carrie & Lowell. Carrie & Lowell also is a really good album.

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just made mine, think it'll get there in a weekish.

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Writing this paper isn't going well, so: MALIK: TPAB: at a campfire this summer, I heard a inspired cover of "the blacker the berry" based on the hotdogs we were cooking ASAP Summertime '06: walking back to my tent, I hear what is almost certainly a black bear. My headlamp is dead. I am sc...

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Isaac Kirk-Davidoff isaac.kirk-davidoff[at]yale[dot]edu 1: A book about some fringe religious/political movement 2: Some book related to Environmental Anthropology (aka how people interact with nature) 3: I like tchotchkes of all shapes and forms. 4: Something related to gardening, something that ca...

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Registering for a tournament means: "We have gotten clear commitments from all our players that they are free that weekend, and are willing and able to attend the tournament. That is to say, coaches in Missouri frequently register before getting clear student commitments because the tournament...

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Rochester, NY is closer to more of the Canadian teams than it is to most schools of the Northeast circuit; I genuinely hope there's another mirror bid for the Northeast, or field attendance is likely to suffer.

And Rochester, NY in January is equivalent to the Naraka of Bursting Blisters.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:
Muriel Axon wrote:You can learn from Richard Hamming and John Tukey:
"Don't wear bolo ties" is indeed advice worth remembering.

My thunderbird bolo has gotten me far in life, but the look I go for is "renegade son of a Wyoming State Senator."

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Girls don't play videogames?

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Strong Female Protagonist is really fun. It's about a superheroine who decides to quit being a superhero and enroll in NYU. Smart, funny and nicely drawn.

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Plz do Halloween Havoc 1991 Chamber of Horrors Match

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Inkana7 wrote:Who I would pick: Laszlo Krasznahorkai

:heart face emoji:

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Maybe it's time for Ngugi? It hasn't gone to Africa in a bit and they missed out on Achebe.

After Krasznahorkai's win in the Booker, it's only a matter of time before he's put on one of these lists. When that happens it'll be a

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Cheynem wrote:The most electrifying man in quiz entertainment today.

Needs to start calling Alex Trebek a "candy-ass".

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And the Conquerer marches on...

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Folks on The A.V. Club comment section discussing Matt Jackson's performance (and smile) last night (you have to scroll down a bit). Some choice bits, both positive and negative: "Matt is a Peanuts background character brought horribly to life." "[Matt]'s like an android assassin pro...

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FaCT has been awarded Gold Certification from PACE, so the top 20% of the field will qualify for the 2016 PACE NSC, held on June 4-5 in the Chicago metro area.

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As someone who routinely gives friends my used books as birthday presents, I just want to say that books can be the greatest gifts on earth. The material quality of the book matters much less than the actual book. I got a ratty copy of some Ken Kesey book (Sometimes a Great Notion) recently at a tou...

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To reply: As I stated, I'm not against removing long distance discounts. K. Wang stated that "long hours of driving were as much of a fact of playing quiz bowl as the actual competition itself." I do not think that's a healthy state for quizbowl to be in. Now, SoCal being planned the way i...

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Matt Jackson and Chris Chiego's recent threads have got me thinking about the geographic disparities in quizbowl. It is my belief that teams need to do a better job of getting more local teams to come to their tournaments. Besides the obvious outreach reasons, quizbowl on a whole would be much more ...

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Connecticut: C+ Yale's high school tournaments anchor a small but growing group of teams playing good quizbowl in the Constitution State. There's still a strong lack of penetration into many of the urban areas, but the Middlesex/Darien pipeline seems to be growing a stellar team there and longtime ...

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To be fair, around this time Chavo was at the (not very high) peak of his career in WWE. He had a very nice feud with Rey Rey, including a match at No Mercy which was probably the best match he had at the fed.

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Our school has basically given us the finger in terms of funding, opting instead for boosting the football team again. We are beginning to fundraise to get to some of the tournaments, but there are many that we won't be able to attend either because of funding or because of our coach's busy lifesty...

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Did the nominating committee take NHBB performance into account? It's called a National Quiz Bowl Award...still though, congratulations on your JV championship at NHBB, maybe you'll get nominated and have the opportunity to pursue further awards in the coming years. Also, just a suggestion, but per...

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I brought this up earlier , but I think that (at least in the DMV circuit) a solution to this is having all the teams cooperate on the schedule before any dates are set. A lot of the problems with too many tournaments that are too close together is that there's no communication between teams on wha...

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I brought this up earlier , but I think that (at least in the DMV circuit) a solution to this is having all the teams cooperate on the schedule before any dates are set. A lot of the problems with too many tournaments that are too close together is that there's no communication between teams on what...

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Granny Soberer wrote:
Ndg wrote:Is Pennsylvania no longer planning to go?
Oops, that's my fault, don't know how I missed that. I've updated the list to include Pennsylvania and a change in Team Kentucky's roster.

Looks like you also missed Maryland

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So I've both played at a variety of tournaments, and moderated a couple, and have come across the same issue multiple times: a lack of accurate timing for answering tossups and bonuses. As far as I am aware, no tournament format (excluding Academic League) requires a clock to be used to determine t...

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funerals I just wanted to say that this was a great set; my teammates and I really loved all the questions about Hinduism and Islam etc. But I was slightly irked on the funerals question, I buzzed in at the point where they said throws sesame seeds and rice in Hinduism, and negged on weddings. I do...

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Who wrote the TU on Das Kapital ? I just want to say I really enjoyed it. There were many questions with an answerline of ship or boat or a more specific ship or boat. Don't know actual numbers, but I felt like it happened a bit too much. I'm a terrible judge of difficulty (see my attempted BHSAT bo...

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"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...

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The Stately Rhododendron wrote:Seminal art-punk band Wire is playing at the Black Cat (in DC) on the 6th, BTW, if anyone's searching for fun activities.

Also Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will be performing at the DAR Hall. His Sufi devotional music is the original trap music. The tickets are pricey tho.

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Kalevipoeg wrote:
Athena wrote:"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?"
It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23)

Citron is some dank-ass

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Can I see the TU over transgender people? I negged it with transsexual so I'd like to see it again to figure out what made my answer wrong. Also, can I see the Melee bonus round because I love that game? Transsexual and Transgender mean different things in the sense that gender and sex are different.

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