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Speaking of which, how do you download this? My computer will only let me stream, and when I try to download whatever program I use just saves the Internet link, rather than storing it.

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Whig's Boson wrote:
jonah wrote:For division II: according to Twitter, Rice got third place. According to Facebook, Brown got first place. That puts Clemson in second, I believe.
Confirmed.

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Blahhunter wrote:Are there going to be any mirrors of this tournament? My team can't be at HSNCT, but I would still like to play the set.

Does anyone have any interest in mirroring this at PACE on Friday or Saturday night, barring any planned side events there?

EDIT: words

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I liked most of the history in this set. Regarding general trends, I second the feeling that there was not much ancient history. I also had the impression that a lot of the world history was leaning towards modern history, specifically the twentieth century. I don't know about other mirrors, but at ...

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Played at NGCSU, as either Southside or "Exactly Third" if the tournament staff remembered we were using a pseudonym.

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TEAM SOUTH CAROLINA Gregory Peacock (Dorman) Masuma Alimohamed (Dorman) Ming Lin (Southside) Ben Cole (Southside) Mariya Mohamad (Dorman) Amit Bilgi (Southside) I apologize for not having notified you of this earlier, Dwight, but Ming has told me he can no longer make this event. Also, Virginia nee...

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North_GA_ATeam wrote:Thanks for letting us know. If you can get the Southside pseudonym in quickly, we can add it to the schedules.

Will do. In the meantime, you can add us into SQBS as "Southside" and change our name when you find out the pseudonym. Ditto for our names on the roster.

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Since I will not be able to attend, the "team" will be called "Mudkip." Similarly, Southside will have to play with a pseudonym of some sort. I'll let you know what we're using prior to the day of the tournament. Our roster is not certain yet, because two of our players are unce...

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Ben: The set played at State today was altered to be MORE ACADEMIC and not less academic. Alpharetta has a very good team, no doubt about that. I was not quite aware of which changes had been made, so I apologize if I spoke too soon. However, is it true that this set had 2/2 computational math per ...

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Results (as told to me): 1) Centennial 2) Brookwood 3) Walton 4) Alpharetta And people questioned my mid-season vote for Centennial but leaving Alpharetta off the list, hm? I have been told that this set was some sort of eccentric alteration of NAQT, which might mean the results are not the same wh...

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As a regular SQBS user, I think part of the logistics issue depends on the format of the tournament. If, for example, you're running a 20 tossup/20 bonus set with powers and negs, it's pretty quick to enter stats. If you are running anything with bouncebacks or quarter systems with differing point ...

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:
Whig's Boson wrote:Any update on how this is going?
Heading into the last round of play, VCU+Magin are 8-1, Chris/Eric/Hannah/Andrew are 7-2, and Brown is 6-5. Yale is 4-5 and RPI and Ian/Dennis/a few rounds of Julia are both 1-8.)

Did you mean "Brown is 6-3"?

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Nick wrote:Yeah, sorry about that. The combined stats are also in NAQT's stats database.

No problem. Sorry if I sounded rude; sitting around with nothing to do because your wisdom teeth have been pulled out will do that to you.

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KoH wrote:Will completed stats be posted for this tournament?

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Ben Cole wrote:Are stats going to be posted?

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I negged the second to last tossup and lodged a protest. By the end of the game, we were down thirty-five. We read the replacement bonus to see if it would need to be resolved. We missed the first part but knew the last two. Here's the problem: we would have easily thirtied the bonus that our oppon...

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The top 4 after the 7 team complete round robin prelims were reseeded for the playoffs, based on record and average points. Those 4 then played another round robin. Dorman A went 3-0, Dorman B went 2-1, Chattahoochee went 1-2, and Southside went 0-3. I believe the top 4 finishes were 1. Dorman A (8...

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Augusta Christan School? I thought that school is in GEORGIA? Has South Carolina invaded and conquered Richmond and Columbia counties form GA? Not being one of Mark Sanford's elite, I can't really say just what the SC National Guard has been doing there on the border... But, since our Governor hasn...

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EDIT: Never mind, just read some relevant PMs from Andrew. I'll just wait for more of those.

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Southside will at most be able to bring one team to the Saturday event. We will still field one team for the Sunday event, but that team will consist only of Neil and me.

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If there is any room for us in the field, Southside would like to register one team for this. We can most likely bring two buzzers.

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I can ensure that the rounds will not run until 5:30. I can say with a certain degree of certainty that we will have 24 teams at the tournament. If this dream of mine comes true, then we will split the field into 3 brackets for the preliminary rounds for every team to play 7 round-robin matches. Th...

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:
Zip Zap Rap Pants wrote:What's with all the Tuesday tournaments these days?
Matt what on earth are you taking about.

I think Matt is confusing Saturday, March 6 with Tuesday, April 6.

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:
stats wrote:LASA 5 0 0 1.00 500.00 172.00 328.00 67 10 100 25.00 500.00 67 1880 28.06
Wow.

Is it the opinion of the editors that this set is significantly easier than last year's set?

EDIT: grammar

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Would it be rude of me to state the outcome before the TD has had a chance to do so? Not really - it's common practice. It might be too early to start clamoring for stats, but that's different. Southside A defeated Dorman "A" 500-210. The semifinalists, if I'm not mistaken, were Freedom A...

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This "Dorman B" team appears to clearly belong in the top 25 in the country. They beat Southside's regular A team and averaged 508 PPG. Wow! I feel sorry for the unfortunate schools that had to play both this Dorman team and Southside A in the preliminary rounds. Glad it wasn't my team......

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grapesmoker wrote:Stats are here.

With regard to finals, USC A played our team in an advantaged final. USC won the first game, winning the tournament.

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To clarify, you don't need to post just because you requested access; we all get an e-mail telling us that. We only need you to post if you think we're not going to recognize your username and therefore wouldn't approve you based on not knowing whether or not you've played. I played for Southside a...

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Nick wrote:Its looking like this is going to be a quadruple round-robin between USC A, USC B, Southside, and a House team (which will be Clemson's regular line-up). Meet in Daniel Hall Auditorium between 8:30 and 8:45. Games start at 9.

So UNC dropped and we have no confirmation from UGA?

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Read 2 rounds and TDed.

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Just as a reminder that this set is still off limits for discussion until 2/27. If you have any specific feedback you want to give me, you can e-mail me at [email protected]

Will this set be posted once all mirrors are complete?

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Question: If KAAC does not field a team to represent Kentucky (it seems like right now they are only sending a team to Panasonic), does that mean we can just combine a few of the best players from the state and play as Team Kentucky? If you intend to do this, you need to organize, talk to your pote...

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Snowpocalypse has defeated Southside again. This tournament is being postponed again due to calls for snow on Monday morning. We are attempting to reschedule for a date in the spring, since we've already bought the question set from NAQT.

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List of ferry operators in Japan wrote:Our team seems to be missing from the "team detail" and "individual detail" pages, so it would be nice if that were among your corrections.

Dunbar A is also missing from the detail pages.

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Edited post above contains the full report, as well as my thanks to everyone who made this tournament possible.

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This happened, despite the adverse weather. The field played a double round robin (10 games), and USC A cleared the field, going 9-1. The House team finished with the second-highest record, 8-2, but was ineligible for the championship. Final Standings: USC A, 9-1 House, 8-2 FSU, 5-5 Ahmad/Wes, 5-5 C...

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12:04 PM: Games begin. The new TD is quaking in his boots.

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Just wanted to let everyone know before I head to bed that this tournament is still happening. Registration will be from 9:00 to 10:00, as stated above. If nothing goes wrong, the tournament will start by 10:30. We are still in the same buildings, and everything else sent in the email is still appli...

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I was also thinking a hotel could be possible. Ahmad and FSU are going to keep driving until it's officially canceled, and if they end up making it maybe we could just do it at whatever hotel they stop at. (each team may need to throw down $10 each or something in order to rent the extra three room...

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The primary problem right now is that Furman may close their buildings because of the weather, BUT they are not required to tell us whether they are closing the buildings until tomorrow at 6:00 AM. Nick Clusserath suggested a solution which is a little laughable, but which might actually work. He su...

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Southside would like to register two teams for this. I'll send a formal email once I get home from school.

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:OFFICIAL DELIBERATION approved both those teams. Have at it.

I assume you're referring to their packet responsabilities? Nathan and I are still discussing whether or not to allow their open teams.

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Although it is short notice, a friend and I would like to possibly be allowed to somehow participate in this event. Until only very recently, we both believed that we would have conflicts with dates the last three Saturday's of February, but have both recently gotten this Saturday free. Obviously i...

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Ming Lin and I will probably play this if we attend HSNCT.

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FredMorlan wrote:How did this go?

This event had to be postponed because of inclement weather. The Greenville County School District canceled all weekend activities, including this tournament. We are currently rescheduling. It is likely that this will be held on President's Day, February 15.

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Dark Ages: Fae wrote:
Alright. I am now expressing interest for the lit singles tournament.

Ditto.

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Well of course there are going to be paper tournaments which last longer than some paperless tournaments, but that's probably because of the people running the tournament, the questions themselves, or any number of other things. Paperless tournaments can and do work really well sometimes, but for e...

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RyuAqua wrote:Will these questions be posted?

In the same vein, will there be discussion, whether in this thread or another?

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Southside's pseudonym for this tournament will be The Physical Impossibility of Defeating Southside in the Mind of Someone Living. This is necessary because we don't have official school sponsorship. I don't care how you enter us during the tournament, so long as the final stats show us with our pse...

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Difficulties resulting from our not being sponsored by our school mean that our B team can no longer attend this tournament. Sorry to drop this on you two days before the tournament, Wes.

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