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Laferbrook is coming to this, right now as a team of two. Middling to poor players are welcome to join us in order to keep our team sufficiently non-super.

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I said those were reasons I didn't like the question , not why the question was bad, though point 1 is why I thought the question was bad (and point 2 adequately described by Bruce - though it was also true, because I knew I would be infuriated by people making these same arguments about why people ...

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About five people commented negatively on the 'Roman women' tossup and not a single one said that it was a bad question because it was negged often, and there was only a single mention of the question being negged at all, so perhaps people should stop characterizing the objections to the tossup as '...

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This was a good tournament. I'll preface my comments by saying that I only have tossup answers in front of me, not full text of the questions nor bonus answers. First I want to say I seem to make this complaint after nearly every trash tournament, but recent TV & music categories again seem to s...

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There was also a Chekhov bonus, and an (awesome) bonus that started by asking for one of Herzen's novels.

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do stats exist for this tournament?

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If BeeS was finished, this thread never would have happened

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Need two teammates for this (academic)

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Actually what happened was someone named "Crz" has been posting to the liveblog during both HSNCT and NSC weekends and you've been harrassing him about 'pretending to be you' even though he hasn't, in fact, claimed to be you. Maybe his initials are CRZ. Maybe he liked Honda CR-Zs. But your...

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It is not. Doing some stalking, that John Kenney is still an undergrad at Columbia.

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Yeah, looking now this distribution seems way too rigid. I could explicate more but in the spirit of the ad-hoc nature of this event, and the experience level of the people signed up for this event, I would even go to the extreme and simply multiply the Chicago Open's 'distribution' by 5 to give peo...

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The 'embarrassment' argument is nonsense. Should we also ban people playing solo because one person beating four can be embarrassing?

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I also voted for 2-3 summer tournaments and 2 school-year tournaments. I'm not sure this is the status quo, though, at least in certain parts of the country. In 2010 I was lucky enough to play 3 tournaments because of the mirroring of VCU Open/Sunday but this has not been the case in years past (I b...

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I think both the Sinclair part and especially the Napoleon III could be acceptable medium parts. It's not like they say 'this author of The Jungle ' or any of the 10+ most famous things about Napoleon III. I definitely think Sinclair is on the 'easy side of medium' and the hard part of that bonus pr...

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I need a team for this. If interested e-mail me at matt.lafer@(the-email-service-run-by-google).com

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I don't know if that's a direct quote from a Churchland paper or Ike's own invention, but if it's a quote, then I don't know where it comes from. I haven't searched all of the papers in my possession but I looked at the ones that I thought were likely to contain this terminology. This appears to be...

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Yeah, that was the most annoying part for me as well. I don't care how hard the tournament is supposed to be, Bessie Head is not an easy part. Neither is Odilon Redon, or "This be the Verse" (especially when you don't give that poem's most famous line), or Witold Gombrowicz. Also, speaking...

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I agree with basically everything that Jerry said in his 2nd post. But to call this tournament everything that is wrong with modern quiz bowl seems to be an amazing bit of hyperbole. The questions were for the most part, pyramidal, and of appropriate length. There were a lot of interesting answer li...

MLafer · Re: IO @ UIUC - 3/5/11 I can confirm our attendance at this.

I can confirm our attendance at this.

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Would PERV be Saturday night or sunday morning?

Sillitoe joke goes here vvvvv

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Avatar is not an anime; it's made by Americans.

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This event happened. Packets by Eric Mukherjee, Mike Bentley, Ike Jose, Mike Cheyne, Dwight Wynne, Ryan Westbrook and myself were read and a good time was had by all.

If anyone would like a copy of my packet (40 tossups, no theme) please e-mail me at matt.mylastname@gmail.

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People who want to play this are to meet at Espresso Expose (600 Washington Ave SE) around 10 AM.

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Hey Minnesota

We need to know where this tournament is taking place, and what time.

The Players

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Is this event going to be mirrored at UCLA or Maryland? If so, we need a contact to send packets to.

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We need some volunteers (preferably, people who aren't playing) that can receive the packets from other sites via e-mail and bring them to the tournament(s). Also, my packet no longer has a theme. I'm shooting for about 40-50 tossups, half of which are regular length and half of which are speedcheck...

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Either night is good for me.

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Honestly, I found the tossups at this tournament to be a bit harder than last year's; some of the bonuses probably could have been buffed up a bit, but just as many probably should have been toned down. But like...this tournament is written for novices. The editors have made this very clear. It's c...

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Cheynem wrote:Assuming I have the time, I think I'll write some packet for this which may actually feature some RPG clues or something. Rob gave me the go-ahead to do whatever I want.

you should still write an Earthbound packet.

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I should have a packet for this. The theme will either be "Towns/Cities" or "Stuff that I feel like writing on".

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I can't see how Laferbrook wouldn't show up at this.

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There was a Chicago F at both ACF Fall 2004 and SCT 2007.

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Can we get the rest of this set posted online? Right now only packets 1-6 are up.

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I forgot to put my e-mail address in my last post...it's myfirstname.mylastname at gmail.

Also, I think I'd prefer the earlier date...though it isn't that important.

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Laferbrook...the team that Ike Jose once described as "very...entertaining" should be there and probably needs some teammates.

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With the caveats that I haven't seen the packets or played the tournament, the concept of a tossup on the Battle of Thymbra seems a little unwise. Unless, of course, I'm living under a quizbowl rock and every decent player knows what it is. "Coincidentally", it's also in that 100 Decisive...

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So I'll tentatively suggest the coming Wednesday, August 25th, at 8 PM as a good date for people who want to play the rest of the questions and the packets of death on IRC. If no one vocalizes their inconvenience either here or over email, I'll assume that date is fine with everyone. Which packets ...

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I don't know if this issue came up in any protests but either "wind of change" or "winds of change" should be acceptable for Macmillan's speech.

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Please sign us up for the Sunday tournament as well.

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You can put my team down as definite for VCU Open. For Sunday I'm not sure...I'd like to see some more college teams show up, obviously we don't want to play against a field of all HS teams.

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Can you post the current field, Jerry?

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Ryan Westbrook and I should have a team for this.

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Ryan Westbrook and I are teaming up for this.

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Ryan Westbrook and I are teaming up for this.

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I was looking through the stats of this tournament, and something that caught my eye was the low bonus conversion (highest was around 19 from what I recall and lowest was in the lower single digits). I remember reading somewhere in the high school section that bonus conversions for good tournaments...

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Dinosaurs Ryan Westbrook and myself need two more people, preferably of the "specialist" persuasion. Please contact one of us via e-mail if interested:

ryan - cryobristow at aol dot com
matt - matt dot lafer at gmail dot com

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Will this set be posted somewhere?

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Perhaps it would be helpful to ask why people write questions over 8 lines. I don't get it myself, and Magin's reasoning perfectly coincides with mine, along with the fact that it wastes editing/writing time in an era of sloppy & late tournaments. So, to those of you who insist on writing long-a...

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Put me down as a free agent as well.

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