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Is it certain now that there won't be ACF Winter again?

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Note that Rochester choose to leave instead of playing each other in the consolation bracket, so the playoffs only contain Cornell and RIT.

That 10 mile drive form Rochester to RIT sounds tough

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You should email Andrew Hart

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Just a friendly reminder that if you plan on purchasing a parking permit, the department code for "visitor to campus" is 7700.

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BCAQB also intends to host a tournament on a Saturday to be announced in April, BOAT III. This tournament will be house-written, and I will probably help the seniors with the editing. Jon, if this doesn't work out (as I recall happening last year), you're always welcome to mirror BATE, which if you...

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I already told Andy this, but we're bringing 2 teams and one moderator

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Hey everyone, The BATE High School Tournament will be available for mirrors starting the weekend of October 2nd until the end of the quizbowl season. BATE is a regular difficulty high school set (roughly the same difficulty of an NAQT IS level set or a regular season set by HSAPQ) written by myself,...

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I would further like to endorse the incredibly awesome 100 Decisive Battles by Paul Davis

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the spelling bee tossup went 13/54/3 in 67 rooms

Ondes Martenot · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10) I can also bring my laptop

I can also bring my laptop

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How is the buzzer situation shaping up (as in, do I need to bring my buzzers?)

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Hey,

The BATE set I'm working on as head editor/writer guy will be done at the end of the summer. It might be mirrored by Bloomfield. In any case, I would of course love to have this set mirrored by any school in the NYC area.

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John Lawrence, Sam and Matt Spaulding and myself will be teaming up for this.

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We will probably not use NAQT for this tournament; nothing against them, but distribution, difficulty and other factors have led to this decision.

Out of curiosity, when you mention difficulty do you mean too easy or too hard?

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Hey,

I am looking for a couple of people who can write well in music, computer science, and economics at the high school level to help out with some writing. You wont have to write much, but I would definitely appreciate the help. Email me at [email protected] if interested.

-Aaron Cohen

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I will definitely attend and am seeking teammates. Anyone interested in playing with me should post on this board or email me at [email protected].

edit: I can also provide a buzzer system since that might be in short supply.

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Any updates about writing requirements?

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When will you know about writing requirements?

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Voted the 10th.

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To the best of my knowledge, NAQT does very slight "seeding" of the sort that powerhouse matchups wont occur in round 1, i.e. there was a zero percent in this hsnct that maggie walker would be facing state college in round 1.

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Good morning,

We could still use a couple (3-4 probably) writers for this tournament. I would like to get the ball rolling on this soon, so please email me at [email protected] ASAP if you're interested. Everything mentioned in the post I made back on March 28th still applies, in case you're curious.

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So let's there's a tossup on George III, which ends "name this British ruler, the third king of his name". The team buzzes in and says King George. Is this promptable, correct or incorrect since the question already mentioned third king of his name?

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Word on the street is that Bergen is attending

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I'm curious who thinks I'm the 11th best player in the country

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There's also the opportunity for an epic game of hide-and-seek

Don't hide in the rooms with the shibaricon people, because that may not end so well.

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Jeff, I assume this is scheduled to begin after scrimmages end. I know last year this sort of caused some confusion.

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I mean, at the very least it shouldn't be too difficult for them to make the daunting 1 mile trip to Harvard for all the tournaments held there.

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I will most likely be playing with Matt Greenbacker, although I should probably ask him first.

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A summer tournament in NYC would be awesome and I would certainly be there. I would try Hunter College since I know they had lots of classrooms open where we practiced during the summer.

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Just so we're all on the same page here For 10 points each--name these precursors of {aromatic} {nitrogen} compounds: A. {Adenine} [AD-uh-neen] and {guanine} [GWAH-neen] are derivatives of this bicyclic compound with formula C|5|H|4|N|4|. answer: _purine_ ["PEW"-reen] B. {Histidine} [HIS-t...

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NAQT's opinion is that hearing more tossups of a shorter length is more or less equivalent to hearing less longer tossups. I basically I'm fine with this, but what happens when you only hear 17-18 tossups a round because you don't have the greater moderator. Then you're hearing fewer tossups that ar...

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Think I'm playing this with at least Chris Chiego.

Want to team up with Matt and I?

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Matt Greenbacker and I are looking for 2 teammates. We'll obviously be working on a packet.

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IMPORTANT: DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE PLAYING THE UPCOMING TOURNAMENT AT WRIGHT STATE USING THIS SET. Here's what I wrote for DII ICT, post here or email me at aarcoh@gmail.com if you have any concerns. I can post any specific question if you need to look at it. round 1: tossup on lead, monteverdi, bon...

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One thing I've noticed...State College has not registered for HSNCT

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Upenn or RPI.

Please please please go to RPI*

*Disclaimer-obviously go to the school that's best for you. If you do however go to RPI I will start spontaneously dancing in the streets.

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Sophocles Plato Aristotle Bacon Locke Rousseau Mill Bentham Kant Hobbes Aquinas Derrida Descartes Chomsky Berkley Spinoza Machiavelli Hume Hegel Nietzsche Kierkegaard Sartre Schopenhauer James Pierce Heidegger Foucault Marx Russel Wittgenstein Husserl Frege Rawls All joking aside, this list looks m...

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Good morning, As the chief editor (I assume at least) of next year's BATE, I would like to begin inviting all interested writers to join in. BATE will most likely feature 10 rounds plus 2 final rounds, each with 20/20 plus 3 tiebreakers. Doing the math, if we have 10 committed writers just writing 2...

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It seems to me that the legitimacy of quizbowl as an activity is much more threatened by people who think that teams losing to other teams who are better than they are is "unfair" Yeah, to continue the sports analogies, quizbowl seems to be the only "sport"/activity where you ca...

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I understand the criticisms of single-elimination, but it...has worked well given the size of our fields. I'm not sure what this means. You obviously have enough staff to run what essentially is round robin in the prelims (round robin as in all the teams will be playing) so you have the staff to ha...

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I'm assuming this will be held at Sever?

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That sounds awesome Jeremy. See you on Saturday.

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Oh...must have been some sort of miscommunication between Andy and I. Any free agent is welcome to join Matt, Doug and myself on Saturday

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Current events are obviously not going to help you and of course things like Pluto not being a planet have to be considered. Other than that, you can pick up a great deal from listening to podcasts, in terms of various facts and a general idea of just "how good" tops high school teams real...

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And after six weeks the great northeast buzzer crisis will finally come to a close. I think.

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RPI also has a Yale buzzer system (I'm assuming Yale has multiple systems). Still have no clue who has our buzzer system

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Our team will be Hannah, Doug Yetman, Matt G and myself

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I've always found the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy quite useful when writing my small amount of philosophy questions

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Also, should I even bother bring our buzzers (well, really Yale's) if you guys already have enough buzzers?

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I would be very interested in doing any sort of lit singles event.

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