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A little while back I interviewed some club presidents on what they did to retain players and make people feel socially included - for those who'd like to learn from Dazhai in agriculture I think the responses were good.

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A forum thread every six months or so criticizing the lack of/treatment of underrepresented groups in qb is really, really frustrating when nothing comes of it. There seems to be a general consensus in this and other threads that a) there aren't enough underrepresented prominent players/editors/gen...

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I think contemporary scholarship on world religions sounds like a very interesting field of study that nobody will really know anything about, and thus should be confined to bonus clues and lead-ins where it is currently. It's also fine I guess to encourage better "scholarly" clues in norm...

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People with academic credentials in specific fields often ask that we test for knowledge of up-to-date academic scholarship in those fields. Usually I'm very skeptical that anyone interested in the subject outside the confines of academia would or should care about that scholarship. Is there any par...

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I'm terrible about keeping up with new music, but I really love Courtney Barnett, who just came out with a new album with Kurt Vile. It's not as good as her other work, I don't think, but it's got her usual vocal and lyrical style that makes her great. You'll like it if you enjoy playful lyrics dens...

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Like Athena, I'm also apprehensive at the idea of a forum dedicated to mental health issues. Removing the stigma is good, but often, in those kinds of forums, it seems like people reinforce one another's feelings of hopelessness and skewed perceptions. This is especially true if there aren't moderat...

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Has Classics been infested with the same kind of white supremacist stuff as medievalism?

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I don't know. I thought it was often enjoyable - as Jerry said it wasn't an abomination - but the difficulty often felt kind of artificial. I'm not sure why we had to ask about Ammu instead of "The God of Small Things," or that secondary Danilo Kis book instead of Kis himself. The point he...

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I definitely agree with what both Auroni and Stephen said. In addition to the important gameplay effects of that linguistic "padding", I think there's a less important but still real aesthetic effect. I think it's in fact more tiring to listen to a set of six line questions that are a ser...

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For ACF Nationals 2017, we originally agreed on a seven-line cap for tossups. As players of that tournament might guess, we abandoned that cap rapidly. Now, though, I wonder if we underestimated the value of length caps, and should have enforced ours more stringently. Whenever I played an NAQT tourn...

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I'll be playing this tournament with Trevor Davis.

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Our fault on the "memory" tossup, we didn't anticipate the need to list other equivalents, which we should have done. I like that style of literature tossup because, if you recognize clues for a novel but can't explain how they interrelate, you'll probably get it later than someone who can...

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Question. I'm reading this set and am wondering about the leadin to the tossup on Dessalines, which states: "According to legend, after this man was dismembered, his body parts were put together and buried by a woman named Azalea." The only thing I can find is this which doesn't seem to ...

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The production schedule was a major driver behind that choice. A lot of good teams didn't submit a complete packet until the $ +50 deadline or later; others didn't produce a packet that could be used on its own. So, at some point in March we realized that if we had to wait for those packets to come ...

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Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina seems like a poor Nationals answer precisely because people will buzz in and just guess the thing, or wait to buzz on the clues in every tossup on that answer. That said, Constitution of Massachusetts only had a few really notable clues, and I should have said &...

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A couple points I'd like to ask about: - Difficulty. We followed a system roughly similar to what we used for VCU Open, designating "Nationals canon" tossups {3} and "extra-canon" tossups {4}, with 8 "{3}"'s and 2 {4}'s allowed per round. In practice we generally unders...

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We ruled that even though "Secret Chronicle" was a rarely-used name, it should be acceptable under the "acceptable translation" rule for foreign-language titles.

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This tournament (except some inconsistencies in the science—physics noticeably harder than biology for instance) rocked my socks. Could we see who edited what? I edited history, social science, philosophy, and visual arts; Evan did visual Other Arts, Geo/CE/Other, and Religion; Tommy did literature...

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Congrats to Maryland and Jordan Brownstein for their gripping win in the finals of ACF Nationals 2017! Our editing team - me, Tommy, Evan, Rohith, Austin, and Ike - worked extremely hard over the past months to bring this tournament to you, and it was awesome to see our work culminate in that game. ...

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A couple points I wanted to address: -A lot of people are saying that I called NAQT and its writers were "parasites." I don't think that - and in the context of the post I'm talking about the character of a specific policy - but I still should have found more careful words to phrase it. -N...

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For what it's worth, my position on this issue is basically identical to Chris Ray's: willing to pay a premium for ICT attendance, much more skeptical and critical of monetizing packet sets in this way for the reasons Chris lays out. My position on NAQT generally is that they do a lot of good and ar...

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if any1 haz ict packets pls send 2 cutieteen94@hotmail.com More seriously, I'm pretty sure NAQT's writer contracts give them exclusive rights to the questions. I don't think there's any moral content to NAQT's intellectual property rights over its questions that makes it okay to privatize their set...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:
gyre and gimble wrote:
Paisley Park wrote:Hey, Carleton submitted a packet last night, but it's not listed. Was it received?
Same.

Hey,

Yes, I got all of these, sorry.

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Folks, please get your packets in for this Sunday's no penalty deadline! We're trying to make this tournament great and it'll help a lot to have more packets to work with in a timely manner.

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Submissions $-100 Maryland Johns Hopkins MIT A Chicago A Minnesota Michigan WUSTL Virginia UIUC $-50 Rutgers Toronto $-25 No Penalty Tennessee Berkeley A Louisiana Tech Oklahoma Chicago B (penalized) $+25 Rice Northwestern Florida Duke Kenyon $+50 Cambridge Oxford B OSU MIT B Ottawa Princeton Amher...

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If you're submitting for the -100, remember to get it in tonight - or ask me for an extension if you're almost done!!

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This tournament will be directed by the inimitable Jerry Vinokurov.

-100 deadline is fast approaching, so get started if you haven't!

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I don't want to set up some kind of binary where Real America likes political history and the Neoliberal Elites love cultural historiography and identity politics. Mike Cheyne's point seemed like a stronger one - we don't need to upturn the history category as it's written because people often do wr...

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I wrote a history tossup on Humboldt for CO History 2012. I'm game if anybody wants to write one of their five history tossups on a science history topic for their Nats submission. It's true that we don't often ask about French social historians more than superficially, but on the other hand they ar...

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I think our mode of writing European history questions is largely sustainable, honestly. When I run out of ideas, I tend to go back to the two College History Bowls, or Chris Ray's sundry productions, for inspiration. Fill out part of the distro with your classic wars, political leaders, countries a...

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I see Matt's point, but I dunno...the Nobel doesn't particularly have a mandate to recognize underappreciated, under recognized, or off the radar authors (indeed, many of their choices were already super famous and didn't need the boost, including recent laureates Harold Pinter and Mario Vargas Llo...

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The Dylan analogy suggests Norman Lear would actually win then. Lear would be an excellent choice, imo. I love this choice. All of you crowing about needing to pick "underheralded, pioneering work from exotic literary traditions" (because a group of Swedes should totally be in charge of t...

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The Dylan analogy suggests Norman Lear would actually win then. Lear would be an excellent choice, imo. I love this choice. All of you crowing about needing to pick "underheralded, pioneering work from exotic literary traditions" (because a group of Swedes should totally be in charge of t...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:Yeah, I want to make very clear I agree with you. Understand your enemy to defeat them, and all that.

The only solution is socialized and mandatory quizbowl.

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I'm pretty on board with using the Nobel to reward underheralded, pioneering work from exotic literary traditions. Or at least not one of the most famous popular figures of all time...I just don't see what the point is. We don't have to go all Herta Mueller every time but come on, has ANYBODY who p...

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Anyway, whatever, time to wait another 10 years until the Nobel goes to another American in David Simon.

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I'm pretty on board with using the Nobel to reward underheralded, pioneering work from exotic literary traditions. Or at least not one of the most famous popular figures of all time...I just don't see what the point is. We don't have to go all Herta Mueller every time but come on, has ANYBODY who pa...

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In 177,391 games on NAQT rules with full individual stats (the same data set but without the bonuses-heard floor), the winning team answered more tossups correctly 91% of the time. If you relax to "at least as many," 96.5%. Can you restrict that to reasonably competitive games by some met...

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This is probably more general than what you're thinking of, but I thought about how upsets are made possible. I guess I'll say there's a few things that typically happen: 1. The other team makes mistakes. Typically, they will do things like "neg in their own categories," or be very aggres...

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Hey folks,

I'll be doing a new kind of bracket this year. Submit your nominees here.

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I have no intention of saying goodbye to the community for a while longer, but I wonder if, as my generation moves on, this might not be a time to assess the state of the game. Are we on a sustainable course? Are we developing enough new writers to pick up the slack as older editors move on? Are peo...

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A tactic that helps me is to think about questions in the past that made me think, "Huh, that's an interesting way of asking that." When I had to come up with an American history answer for Nats 2014, I thought about Matt's Leo Frank tossup from 2013 and came up with the analogous DC Steph...

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a lot of discussion based on a miscommunication on my (Matt's) part OK, what confused me about your argument is that there's no need to introduce a positive correction factor in Tommy's case. His ppg on its own at hard events in the playoffs was really damn good; higher than Ted's at his best event...

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I sense a mighty post forming from Hyde Park, but just to cool this down: I respect both John and Mike's rankings and enjoyed reading their commentaries. I did think that my friend and teammate was under ranked for how good he was, and spoke up because he doesn't often read these forums. The audienc...

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I don't really know/care how well he performed in 7 games against Yale and Chicago; I think you can correct for that by looking at the hundreds of other games from those tournaments. I understand and respect that you are trying to defend a teammate whom you feel has been long underappreciated, incl...

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My argument on "out of the way" buzzes was that Tommy is more likely to add tossups that standard generalist teammates would not answer otherwise. I don't think that's independent of game results at all. I meant that if you're drafting a team to win a hard tournament, Tommy is probably the...

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I'll add more later, but I think Tommy had a much better career than Ted or Dallas and should be ranked accordingly. In particular, I think there are a couple biases working against him in this poll. One is the shadow effect that John mentioned. The second is prominence; Ted and others above Tommy p...

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This crossed my mind the other day. I don't know how this works in other states, but in NY, someone can, if they do poorly in high school, stay until they turn 21. It's not unheard of for someone to be in their fifth year of high school (repeating the 12th grade), and it actually happens quite a lo...

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MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE, MR. CHEYNE?

MAMA THERE GOES THAT MAN.

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One question I'd ask about submitting packets: do more experienced editors on a submitting team have a responsibility to supervise or edit the submissions of less-experienced teammates? I think that really would lessen the burden on set editors, but it might be undue for the teams sending submission...

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