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ErikC

To gauge interest in a discord mirror, anyone who would play please fill out this poll so I could pick the best time.

https://doodle.com/poll/kf3y9r9tq6qum3r2

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I've sent the packets to Colin, but if that's not the right person I can send them to someone else.

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Simply put, this event was amazing. I was excited just for the expected pure food questions but I didn't realize how good the trashy food questions would be. As a middle of the road player at the event I felt I was never "out" of any question. Yeah, that's probably a fair criticism. This i...

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It's called a victory lap now, and there are several schools/areas where it's fairly normal (e.g. Waterloo Collegiate Institute IIRC). It's only a victory lap if you actually have all the credits of course. It's worth noting that a recent national tournament of the Canadian non-quizbowl game that w...

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Truly outrageous idea.

Look forward to playing this (and being embarassed if I don't do well!).

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Progcon wrote:Will there be an IRC/Discord/Skype reading of this? I really want to play this, but I can't make it to Side Event weekend at U of M.

I wasn't planning on one but I will think about running a discord mirror.

ErikC

A sixth pack of this tournament, written for the Toronto mirror of ICT, will be available on the archives shortly.

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CBM is free to mirror and available right after this weekend, so if you desire you could host it in Michigan. It's being planned for the official Michigan side event weekend as well.

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So far only Paul and MSU Alum have registered for Chuck Berry Memorial. If anyone attending for sure wants to play send me a message.

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Sounds fun! There may be enough interest for a Canadian mirror.

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Until women writers are a natural, unforced 50% of questions about writers, for instance, then it isn't enough. The problem is, it's not the novel--it's the writer . It seems that for the next while, men are still going to dominate neutral lit, and women are going to be relegated to genre fiction. ...

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I'm curious if there was a way of accurately gauging how well women are represented in different categories of questions. My impression is that there are plenty of women asked about frequently in literature questions and are an integral part of history questions (with significant variance). But for ...

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Yeah, I mean, to each his own. I was just pointing out that the distro shouldn't be taken at face value--there's way more Internetiana and memes than you might expect (including a pretty downright offensive one that was a very bad idea to tossup). I wasn't thinking about the distro, but you're defi...

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Cheynem wrote: like an insanely high proportion of questions were on Internet memes and culture (like even the stuff not directly on memes uses a ton of clues on memes)

You won't find me complaining about this, especially when some sets have little or none of it.

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Now this is a distribution I'm down with.

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Uh, have you played an Eliza trash tournament? Because that's all I do.

It does explain a lot

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The genesis of this tossup was that I googled "worst bands ever"

How often do you do this

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Did this get played? How many packets were there? Sorry, I had neglected to announce here the change of plans. This is going to be played at the ICT Mirror in Toronto on the July 29th weekend. There are 7 packets. Now that I have finalized the date this set is open to free mirrors on the July 29th ...

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As mentioned, another pack written in the style of Side Event of a Madman will be played. It will be available on the archives shortly after playing as a bonus DLC Gold Edition pack.

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There are lots of social science papers with hundreds thousands of citations that probably won't get asked much in quizbowl because they focus on things like specifics of research methods, refinements of existing models, etc. to the point that you won't be able to get more out of them than "X ...

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I actually do agree with Caleb to some extent that psychology questions should generally be convertible by psychologists, ecology questions should generally be convertible by ecologists, and so on -- which I think describes the situation right now, so this isn't a critique of the status quo. I don'...

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I would say there is a Nats-level canon that some packets more than others lean on. While Nats is at the difficulty level that you will find the First Question Ever on some topics, other times there will be questions similar to Regionals, just more difficult. Getting these kinds of questions (like a...

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Zhenglin Liu from Toronto B is still new to the game and is already a beast at auditory fine arts (a decently competitive area in Canada) and his knowledge doesn't seem to fall off at any difficulty level. In his last year he'll be in contention for one of the best opera players.

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The first set was great, looking forward to a Canadian mirror of this.

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The tossup on cities works fine but I think it would be possible to use other sources for the first two clues than Mumford and Jacobs, who are clued very often. Cluing someone more modern like Andres Duany or a bit more fresh Patrick Geddes or Le Corbusier would be a nice change. As someone who is s...

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I have material for 7 packets as of now, so I can say that this will be ready for the tentative MacVanity weekend of June 24 (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19881). I have updated the distribution listed in the first post, but I may change it later. I will edit them after t...

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2 questions.

1. How difficult is it?

2. How hard are the bars?

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SpanishSpy wrote:At this rate I can't get one to you this weekend. If you are taking submissions afterwards I might make that depending on when.

This isn't being played for months so there is no rush.

ErikC

I suppose the more serious or conspiracy content will be in other tournaments?

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The packets are now available on the archive.

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An update: this event is over 50% done for my 8 pack target and may be longer if I find the time to write additional packets. This will likely be played at the Second Summer Open side event weekend in Ontario.

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gregweinstein wrote:can these be done at one of the upcoming nationals tournaments in the next two months?

Absolutely.

ErikC

These packets haven't made it on the archives yet, if anyone wants the packets to play email me at [email protected]

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Will this be singles, doubles, or a full-team event? The Canada site will have to depend on the event it is attached to. I think for other sites doubles or full teams would both be suitable. What's the sub-distribution of questions about trafficking teenage girls across state lines for immoral purp...

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GIven that I never used a number of questions I wrote for this: , I'd be happy to contribute any or all of the questions that weren't used at 2013 CO Trash. I've probably got enough tossups to make a 2+ packets. If you want, I could packetize what I have and send it along. That would be great. I'd ...

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Inspired by the excellent Fight the Power hip-hop tournament and fueled by my developing addiction to writing trash, I am announcing the Chuck Berry Memorial rock music tournament. The tentative distribution is as follows: 1 1950-1959 3 1960-1969 3 1970-1979 3 1980-1989 3 1990-1999 3 2000-2017 4 com...

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I agree with Aaron, this tournament was well-written and very fun. I am considering producing a rock music tournament similar to this because I liked the format so much.

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I have submitted the 5 packets to the archives so they will be available shortly for free mirrors. Special thanks to Aaron Dos Remedios for his contribution of a pack, which will be available shortly. For those in Canada who missed the Ottawa site, we will be holding a mirror after EMT at the Waterl...

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SpanishSpy wrote:This sounds like fun - by when would you want the packet?

2017 ACF Fall will likely be the site for this, so before that weekend.

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sambrochin wrote:Can I submit a packet? This was one of my favorite sets of trash packets last year, and I'd love to send some questions in.

Yes, any submissions from anyone are appreciated and will be played eagerly.

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Wake Up Sheeple , the sequel to [REDACTED] , the Conspiracy Side Event, will be held after a major academic tournament in Fall 2017. Besides conspiracy theories of any kinds, packets can include questions of pseudo-science, alchemy, religious heresies, cults, the occult, urban legends and myths, an...

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As usual, this tournament was fun and high quality. I appreciated the variety of music and video games (especially the tossup on Thriller).

One small thing, questions on Harambe are getting pretty old, even if the clues are fresh.

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A countervailing phenomenon is the fact that many music fans listen to songs, but don't necessarily know the names of the album on which they appeared. I've been a fan of Bob Dylan's music for nearly my whole life, but I'm not necessarily sure I could correctly identify the album on which "Mag...

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one could know a lot about Bob Dylan's music and not know Maggie's Farm. I realize this was just a quick comment for example's sake, but no. One could know a little about Dylan and not know "Maggie's Farm," I guess, but beside it being a major song in his repertoire, it is the performance...

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To be honest I am unqualified to really talk about sports so I am willing to believe this wasn't that hard. However, looking through the music questions now, it strikes me how little music tossups were about albums and artists compared to the bonuses, while there was plenty of tossups on individual ...

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I dislike that I am necroing this badly, but I found the above conversation so interesting that I am going to anyway. While preparing my own trash packets for my silly side event I have thought about why I wanted to write such a thing in the first place. I think Mike is right here that sports is sub...

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A lot of people (even active posters on the forums) probably just don't want to take the time to compose the type of post you'd need to compose to address these issues. People know that they shouldn't just make gut-reaction posts, because they're going to be called out and forced to cite specific e...

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From the editing team of [REDACTED], I am pleased to announce a 5-pack(et) trash side event, called Side Event of a Madman , that will include content on culture both high and low. Each pack(et) will have two rounds: a normal half with 10 easy to medium tossups and bonuses. However, the second half ...

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While I share you concerns about Philippines tossups in general, Erik, I don't think they're really applicable here. Then again, I wrote this question, so I might just be projecting. Sorry, I wasn't very clear about this. I didn't play the editor's pack that had that question in it at the Canada si...

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I'd like to say that I've found a good deal of questions on the Philippines to be fairly transparent. Most of the time it's just because it's a weird mix of names that only an Asian country ruled by Spain and the U.S. would have. I think the Marcos question was effective because it avoided this. I s...

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