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Discussion of the set as a whole goes here.

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Reminder to teams that have buzzers: bring them with you this morning, as we need 5 for Super Acronym.

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People should meet by the Angell Hall auditoria.

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Thought Monstrosity schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SXp ... sp=sharing

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If anyone who's playing Thought Monstrosity wants to Venmo me the fee this week, it would give me less to worry about on the day of. Of course, paying on Saturday by whatever method is fine too.

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This set was really good, and the three points you mention all shone through when I was playing it.

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I'm looking for teammates for GEODUCK and Stock Clues. I'm not particularly good at either category, but I have been to some places and eaten some food, and sometimes I can linguistically fraud things.

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It will be complete, with 7 packets of 20/20.

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This set is being reduced from 8 packets to 7 packets.

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The only strong opinions I have are that I'd like to play The Modern Age and There Will Be Stock Clues, and that I'd like Thought Monstrosity to be run (which I'd staff). But I'll play most anything that gets run, though I can staff trash things if there's need.

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Thought Monstrosity is another side event that's available. It has bonuses, though you could theoretically run it tossup-only.

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Now that all mirrors are completed, people are free to post any comments they'd like. I just uploaded it to hsqb, so it should appear soon.

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This tournament was exemplary, particularly the literature. There were many, many questions that probed interesting aspects of important topics (the tossup on "nothing" from Shakespeare stands out as probably my favorite example).

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Sure, I'll move it to 11:00.

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I haven't done one of these in a while, so tonight at 10:30 EDT, I'll read a packet called "Women in Quizbowl," consisting of 40-odd tossups on the achievements of women. There will even be science tossups!

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This weekend's mirrors have wrapped up. If you're interested in holding a mirror, let me know sometime this week, otherwise I'll post the set.

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Friends of Chris Manners cleared the field; full stats are at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/.

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women, fire and dangerous things wrote:We'll be in 3411 Mason for practice.

Actually, we're in 3437.

women, fire and dangerous things

We'll be in 3411 Mason for practice.

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Before the party on Friday, we'll have an informal practice open to anyone who wants to attend. It'll be from approximately 6:00 to 8:00, and we'll meet in the third floor of Mason Hall.

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Michigan beat Chicago in the first game of an advantaged final.

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There has now been a massive influx of staff, but as there are only 10 packets, I'll keep the field cap at 8. People who are still free agents should feel free to join a team as a fifth player, as long as that team doesn't already have Jordan Brownstein or Auroni Gupta on it.

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I'm going to put a tentative field cap of 6 teams on this, as we have three staffers signed up and enough free agents for precisely 6 teams (with one 5-person team*) now. If there's a surge in interest and I get another staffing volunteer, I might expand to 8, but for now, be sure to join a team and...

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Sophia Takal's Always Shine has a scene near the beginning which plays with and then undermines the audience's expectations in a really neat way, which I won't spoil. There's a brief conversation between Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck near the end of Manchester by the Sea which is unbelievably ...

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On account of the various canceled packets, I'll read a brief packet of tossups on the films of 2016.

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I mostly read Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang out of curiosity after seeing Arrival , but ended up really enjoying it. The most interesting story might be "Hell is the Absence of God." It's set in a world where divine intervention is not uncommon and everyone takes as a matter of fact ...

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I'm in the midst of William T. Vollmann's Last Stories and Other Stories , which is really good. Here is the opening sentence of one of the stories: "If you have never loved with such luminous fidelity as to await a dead lady at a crossroads at midnight, then the question of why it is that Roma...

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FWIW, I learned the clue about Tolkien and "The Wanderer" in an Old English class, and I don't know anything about Tolkien's poetry, so it's not entirely all-or-nothing.

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Charbroil wrote:or some tennis balls.

Henry V would also delighted to receive a gift of tennis balls, I assume.

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This is the announcement for the Michigan site of Scattergories, a side event which will be played on Saturday evening after the conclusion of (This) Tournament Is a Crime on February 25. See http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18920 for the global announcement. Team formation is be...

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As long as this thread is being hijacked, I may as well do it myself. For those who don't know, I'm a crossword constructor on the side - I used to publish them a bunch in places like the New York Times, but not so much recently. Anyway, I'm starting my own site where I'll be posting crosswords week...

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This is the announcement for Thought Monstrosity, a side event about philosophy, social science, and other "thought," which will be ready in time for the traditional "second summer open" slot. The tournament will be written by Young Fenimore Lee, JinAh Kim and Caleb Kendrick, and...

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This tournament is completely done, and consists of 10 packets of 24 tossups plus a tiebreaker. So I guess if anybody's interested in holding a mirror earlier than (This) Tournament Is a Crime, feel free to contact me.

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I'm seeking a teammate for this. Message me if you'd like to team up, especially if you like poems.

UPDATE: I am playing with noted poem-liker Chris Borglum.

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:
Krasznahorkai might be my pick, actually.
Yours and presumably fan-of-Bela-Tarr Will Nediger's, too.

It's true! But I also love Javier Marias.

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Now that around three packets are done, an update which will surprise precisely nobody who knows me well: the lit and arts in this set will be heavily skewed towards 20th and 21st century stuff, and there will be a lot of common links. Clue-wise, things are shaping up to be rather hard (comparable t...

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I made that same neg, as you might remember, but I don't think it's the fault of the question - buzzing in on the assumption that the clue's talking about the most famous Nochlin work involves taking a risk. Still, it's true that a fuller description might have been more helpful (since I have actual...

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The film questions were generally good. I also wasn't a fan of the Full Moon tossup, not so much because it was hard (which it was), but because its connection to "art" was rather tenuous. I agree that something like Roger Corman (and maybe Troma) is a better idea in that it's a topic that...

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Yeah, this is very much open.

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This is the announcement for Scattergories, a tossup-only multi-subject side tournament written by me. As a vanity tournament, it will consist of questions only on categories I like (mostly literature and arts), and will be quite hard (but not, like, Arrabal hard). It will be played after the Michig...

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We'll meet in the lounge on the mezzanine on the 4th floor of Lorch on all days. The Tappan Street entrance will be unlocked on Saturday and Sunday, but send me a text (226-700-4032) if you can't get in on Friday evening.

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I have the stats for the bottom 2 rooms, but I seem to have misplaced the stats disk for the top room (oof). The top three finishers in the top room were Yogesh, Andrew Yim, then Ian Greig, but I don't have the rest of the order. Stats for room 2: John Lawrence 100 Chris Borglum 85 Auroni Gupta 40 M...

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I'm already working on a sequel, so stay tuned.

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Due to a glut of last-minute adds, I ended up adding a third room. Yogesh Raut, unsurprisingly, emerged victorious. Thanks to everyone who stayed to play! Here is a link to the set ( https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6XlUxqCXvq4d3g4dTlqZWVTZHc ) and the answer key ( https://drive.google.com/open?id...

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With 20 people now signed up, I'm closing the field.

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We're at 16 now - I won't formally close the field, but I will say that 18 and 20 are much better numbers than 17 and 19.

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Current field:

Aaron Dos Remedios
Kai Smith
Cody Voight
Matt Lafer
Mike Cheyne
Auroni Gupta
Brian McPeak
Saul Hankin
John Lawrence
Chris Borglum
Tommy Casalaspi
Rein Otsason
Trevor Davis
Richard Yu
Evan Adams
Tejas Raje
Ian Greig
Christine Irwin
Rob Carson
Foster Hughes

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There are currently 14 people signed up, so we'll do a simple 2-room format. 16 would be an ideal number, so it would be great if two more people signed up.

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To officially sign up for this tournament, please email me (my first initial and last name at umich dot edu) by July 15, so I can nail down the precise number of rooms. Also, it's possible I'll need one or two more staffers, so if you're sticking around after trash and willing to staff, let me know.

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