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Matt Weiner wrote:If this is paired with VCU Open at some unusual time (say, Friday during the day or evening), would that greatly affect a lot of people who can't get out of their summer employment and otherwise wanted to come?

I'd be perfectly fine with this.

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I'd definitely be willing to pitch in a few questions.

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UPDATE: Now that we've got funding, Dartmouth (sans Nick Jensen) plans on playing this tournament if there's room in the field. Also, we'd greatly prefer if you guys allowed people from multiple sites to compete, since Aaron Pellowski is currently in Germany but is interested in playing with the res...

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Since I missed MUT, I feel obliged to play this, assuming there is in fact a mirror at Virginia Tech. If anyone's interested in forming a team, please message me or indicate so in this thread.

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I'm definitely interested in playing this if I can, hopefully along with some other non-Nick Jensen members of our quizbowl team.

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Excelsior (smack) wrote:If nobody steps up to edit this tournament, I will do it* and you will have to play geology tossups on "Gondwana separating from Laurasia".

I might enjoy this, as it'd mean I could actually get science questions by the end at a hard tournament.

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Update: Dartmouth won't be able to attend this tournament.

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We don't plan on going to this anymore. Hopefully we'll be able to play next year. (Alternatively, we could try and play this over Skype, if anyone else is interested in doing that - I'd love to, for one).

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Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:But is there a Taiwanese news video yet?

I can't wait to see NMA quizbowl animations!

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I also thought of Dimitri, the player from BCC that created an entirely fake tournament and got me to send him one of the HSAPQ question sets. I was completely shocked when it was announced that Dimitri had cheated because by all signs Dimitri was enthusiastic about the game, had been studying hard...

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As of right now Dartmouth plans on sending one team to this tournament. We will have one buzzer system.

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On a semi-related note, was the British History from ACF Fall ever assembled into a side event?

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This is the first time I got to see a lot of the best teams in the DMV square off against each other and I was blown away. Maggie Walker, Blair, and TJ are frightening, WJ has gotten really good (kudos, especially to Sameen), and New Kent and RM are as impressive as ever. Noah and teammates from GDS...

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If it wasn't clear before, I agree with this wholeheartedly. I've tried to promote this agenda in my writing, not always successfully, and I would recommend others to bear it in mind when they write SS, even if execution isn't perfect it's better than the same old things trotted out again and again...

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Regarding the question of mythology, I'm in favor of decreasing its distribution for some of the reasons already mentioned. Much of quizbowl mythology is simply knowledge of the actions of fictional characters, only distinguished from literature by the fact that they are associated with the religiou...

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I'm certainly more in favor of the distribution conforming more to what people actually study in academia. For this reason, I feel math/computer science and especially social science are underrepresented in the distribution. Economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology and various forms of geograp...

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The general consensus among our team was that this tournament was somewhat easier than what we imagine "regular difficulty" to be. I feel the bonuses were the major shortcoming of the tournament, with a lot of fairly easy 30s and instant-20s for players with a moderate amount of experience...

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As mentioned, the teams were balanced and the games were well-fought and enjoyable, as was this tournament. Thanks to Harvard for hosting.

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I plan on submitting a packet along with Kirk Jing from Dartmouth. Hopefully I'll also be playing this tournament with him.

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Well, at least you guys haven't had your quizbowl programs collapse entirely. BCC's academic team has regressed once again to being utterly consumed by It's Academic and Quizmaster Challenge.

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Can someone post the the Malacca tossup? I was a bit confused when it started referring to "this city" after mentioning Zheng He. I'd always thought that Malacca either referred to the Sultanate or the Straits (in which Zheng He fought a battle or two against the pirates based there) and ...

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On the whole I though the history at this tournament was fairly good and well-written. I did have a few problems though, several of which have already been brought up: There were a couple of questions in this set that I thought invited negs. The question on Lysander practically begged for a Xenophon...

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I felt like this set overestimated the knowledge that the field had. History in particular seemed to go into "Are you an expert in this time period/field of history? No? Too bad." way too often in the bonuses. I disagree, and think that this tournament accomplished its difficulty-related ...

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I'd be delighted to play such a tournament.

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We don't plan on bringing a C-team anymore, if that helps. We're not sure if we can field a B-Team at this event, either.

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Dartmouth's interested, though hopefully there's a mirror that's a bit closer by.

naan/steak-holding toll · Re: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13) Dartmouth is interested in attending.

Dartmouth is interested in attending.

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Having a lot of people who know a lot of things works fairly well at the high-school level, where the canon is smaller and people take a wider range of classes. That was basically my experience playing high school quizbowl - our team never went to a lot of tournaments (unfortunately) but since our p...

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Dartmouth is definitely interested in this.

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Well, I certainly had a blast reading at this tournament. The questions had a lot of issues with the lead-ins in my opinion, but I guess this wasn't supposed to be the hardest question set ever.

Also, WJ has gotten a million percent better since I last saw them play. Kudos to them.

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If you guys need additional moderators, I'd like to volunteer; I should be available that day.

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Sad that we missed the finals on tiebreakers but I couldn't have hoped for any better for my first college tournament. Hope everyone else had fun as well, and I look forward to seeing people again at Yale this Saturday!

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OK I'll be on this scab team. Playing alone sounds horrible.

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I just received word that Paul and Isaac won't be able to make it on Saturday. In which case...still up for hire!

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It will be a learning experience, Will. And, yes, you can and will beat teams there this day, including perhaps us who will be missing our second best (and only legitimate "science") player. Going head-to-head with Alexa (and her cohort) does sound like a good challenge... Due to unforese...

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Once again, I do not have a team. And I refuse to play alone against teams of this caliber. If anyone who doesn't think they have a chance at winning wants a mercenary (a no-cost mercenary!), feel free to ask. But I don't want to stop anyone from taking home a trophy.

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If my teammates are once again too soft for a tournament...I will gladly hitch onto somebody else's team. Or staff, or something.

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Right, I'll see what support I can drum up from my school then.

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An actual B-CC team is almost certainly not feasible this time

So I'd be totally up for signing onto somebody else's squad.

Credentials: 4th place individual scoring at St. Anselm's tournament.

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I'm going to try my best to have us go to this tournament, I want to do one more before the year is out.

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Unfortunately I'm having trouble mustering enough manpower to be able to go because of AP exams, and because many of our good underclassmen are busy.

I wish I could just sign onto someone else's team, I REALLY don't want to miss this one...

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I'm interesting in coming to this tournament, I'm hoping to bring some of our younger players and/or less experienced ones. I have a lot of APs but I don't care about all of them enough that I would miss out on some good Quizbowl.

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Great tournament, was a lot of fun. Unfortunate that we couldn't make the playoffs but it was well-fought and very competitive, and it was my best indiviual performance to date!

Hope to bring some of our newer players to the MD tournament on the 6th

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As Spence says, we are planning on going. The question is, will we bring one team, or two?

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Was very happy we could make this tournament and furthermore that we didn't do horribly at it. For our first QB tournament of the whole school year, I don't think 7th is too bad. Hopefully I'll be able to get all of our regulars on the A-team next time and maybe have a B-team as well.

naan/steak-holding toll · Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/5/2012 B-CC's definitely interested.

B-CC's definitely interested.

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I'll see if I can muster a team or two, as I want to do more than one QB tournament this year.

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