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theMoMA wrote:We just booked a hotel for this, and it's not in Rantoul!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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Mike is an enjoyable, reasonable, and responsible individual who can drive (unlike so many of us). He comes highly recommended!

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July 26 is my birthday. I'm not sure if I am therefore in favor of July 25 because it could possibly let quizbowl people whom I like attend my party, or against July 25 because the last thing I want to do on my birthday is moderate some trash event. For it, clearly. Partying with quizbowlers outwei...

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Lollapalooza is August 7-9. That might factor in. That still exists? I think it happens only in Chicago now. Even so, I'm fairly sure that CO and Lollapalooza peacefully co-existed in 2007. Lollapalooza does not concern me outside of securing hotels, but I would rather not see both CO and VCU Open ...

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Hey, I had a random question based on some comments on both this and the private forum: NAQT editors repeatedly reference that a tossup "played well" in testing when discussing difficulty, clue placement appropriateness, or whether something is a reasonable answer. I'm quite intrigued as ...

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Registered.

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What we did at Prison Bowl, which seems to have worked well, was implement, on a small scale, pronunciation guides of a sort, which broke up long terms while not impeding the readers' flow: topo·isomer·ase Tla·huiz·cal·pan·tecuh·tli oxy·phen·buta·zone I certainly plan on using these in lieu of most...

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Ukonvasara wrote:I'll be getting off my fool ass and playing this time.

Me too, man. This is worth paying for.

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Cleveland would be an ideal place. Certainly better than driving 24+ hours to Dallas. Minnesota quiz bowl has now begun it's process on disowning you, Bernadette Spencer! What Blasphemy! Anyway, as crazy as we Minnesotans are about drive (ANSWER: VERY) I am sure we would appreciate a shorter drive ...

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Pittsburgh and Cleveland seem like reasonable sites to me. They're in driving distance for a lot of the Northeast, Midatlantic, and Midwest circuit, and probably even some teams from the South. When 3/4 of the field is driving to the tournament, the proximity of good hotels to the tournament, publi...

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So, how many teams are able to stay after a tournaments for tourism purposes? Not us, man. We are going in and coming right back. Also seconded. To be serious though, any of the major rust belt cities -- Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland -- have definite economic advantages over, say, Chicago with...

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I'm not a great moderator, so I'm usually pretty sympathetic regarding moderators who struggle over foreign words or scientific terms. Some general things that I think TDs or experienced players could communicate to inexperienced moderators would be, based on personal experiences, this: *Be enthuse...

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Good tournament--Paul Drube made the trains run on time and I approve of being done by 6:30 with still a lot of solid quiz bowl. Yes, this tournament was excellently run. The tournament building was wonderfully convenient as well, close to parking, close to food. It was great. Thanks Paul, Q, et al.!

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I don't think that requiring a minimum level of competence hinders new programs in any way. Basically, it seems to me that all we're asking is that people make some effort to practice and train at moderating before they do so in an actual game (one that matters to me,) which is both eminently reaso...

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FredMorlan wrote:So, like, is it not normal for places to hold morning moderator meetings?

Do go over packets? No.

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BATE Writing has hit a logjam of sorts, as we're faced with one last category with which none of us are really good at writing for and need some input and hopefully questions from someone much better at it than us. So any good RMP writers out there want to help, just email theczar1724 AT gmail.com ...

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OK seriously all of you dumb fucks are making this far too complicated. Leaving tournaments early when it will fuck things up or without telling the TD is bad. Leaving tournaments early at an appropriate juncture, giving the TD some advance notice, for whatever reason, isn't, you know, awesome, but...

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Further investigation seems to indicate that at least part of the Book of Daniel is canonical but some episodes within it are not ( source ). I guess I did not realize that some parts of this work were apocrypha and other parts not. Yeah, the Apocrypha is a confusing and often not well-defined grou...

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Okay, based on the reactions here, I'm convinced that I was probably too harsh on the prospects of electronic scorekeeping. Sorry about that. I'm willing to believe that it can be perfectly useful in the right situation. Start looking for that scroll with seven seals on it, guys. The apocalypse is ...

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Yeah, I had a great time at this, and it seems like my teammates and B-team did as well. With that being said, the stuff was pretty damn hard, especially the bonuses, and the science seemed harder than the rest of the set. There was also monotonously much orgo, and it seemed like there was about tw...

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Byes are only good when yours occurs after lunch.

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DumbJaques wrote:Georgetown!
whoa, a new team

is this a grad student or some new people?

I know that former Minnesotan Andrew Bockover now goes to Georgetown. Perhaps he is on the team. :)

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Round Formats and Scoring: Similar to NAQT tournaments, there will be tossups and bonuses each round. Tossups are answered individually, while bonuses are answered after conferring with the entire team. Scoring will have powers, but no negative points for buzzing in early and missing. Each round ha...

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Minnesota will be there with 1-3 (most likely two) teams.

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Yeah, it would, but I suppose one could just revote.

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This practice not recommended for most Masses. Right. Sorry about that. The same goes for requiems, now that I think about it. Unless one is willing to do research to find out if a specific part of a Mass or Requiem setting is unique, which most aren't, writers should strive to exclude clues about ...

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I can't understand how people claim to learn anything from a quizbowl tournament, it's simply not possible in the format ... In any other category the only other thing to be learned is clues that can be memorized for use in other quizbowl. This is the polar opposite of understanding or mastery and ...

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I can't understand how people claim to learn anything from a quizbowl tournament, it's simply not possible in the format ... In any other category the only other thing to be learned is clues that can be memorized for use in other quizbowl. This is the polar opposite of understanding or mastery and ...

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Do you believe that workarounds such as "Like gold, it dissolves in aqua regia" (though in this situation you'd have to say "like craploads of stuff," but you understand). Those workarounds are absolutely critical, and in fact should be used more often than they are. As writers/...

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NAQT should accept your recommendations regarding math comp. I love them.

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The real issue seems to be that NAQT does not adhere to the necessary novice difficulty and skirts the principles of good quizbowl to the extreme. A sets seem less like a vehicle for shorter, high-quality questions that recreational players can enjoy and newer players can learn from. They instead s...

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My question is, where does history end and CE begin?Couldn't a TU on Hamas be counted under the appropriate history subdistro. I guess my contention is this: the non-"ripped from the headlines" CE that you talk about is, in fact, "Modern History", and should be counted as such. ...

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I've always been personally tickled by the notion of an "academic thought" distribution, largely because social science is often restricted, at the majority of tournaments, to the same old subjects. I think it would be interesting to experiment with liberating philosophy from RMP and crea...

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when I see a bonus that puts at a huge disadvantage Jews living on the eastern seaboard, I am disgusted. Guy, would you mind emailing me with details? 1. It's possible to imagine perfectly good forms of quizbowl that might do this (eg, geography of California, lives of Christian saints). and 2. I c...

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The issue of mixed teams aside, one thing that Chris White and Bryce Durgin brought up in this thread on which I agree is awarding the top team from one college the tournament championship, or at the very least hardware for being the top college team at the tournament. The reason I believe this is ...

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My opinion is that: Unless we're talking about ACF Nats (cause it's a collegiate title) or some sort of undergraduate/introductory event, we shouldn't go trying to put restrictions on who can play. It hinders attendance and competition and the formation of reasonable teams, and for no logical reaso...

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Stock clues are stock clues, man. I am glad that new teams are learning things that come up in quizbowl, but perhaps a better way to address this is more clearly delineate between plagiarism and stock clues and phrases.

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Sir Thopas wrote:AKHENATEN WAS MOSES SCREW ALL YALL

YES YES FREUD YES YES TOTEMS

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I will probably want to play this if I am at PACE :)

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I would like to say thanks to Harvard and everyone who wrote for putting out a decent set that was worth the trip to Appleton to play against Illinois and Lawrence. It was, for the most part, an enjoyable experience. I would like to point out my objection to three patterns that I sensed within the t...

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Brilliant, Andrew.

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Where to begin, where to begin. I haven't presented myself as a great anything anywhere in this thread. Yes, yes, you have. I'm just trying to say what's true. Clearly, if everyone else possessed knowledge of this truth, then there would be no need for you to proclaim it. That I don't really have a ...

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Ahmad, you are right. There is nothing wrong with examining power structures within any sort of organization, but you can't just pull a Derrida and apply theories to things where they obviously don't fit.

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If you see some problem with my notion of natural selection and its relevance to psychology, I would be terrifically interested to hear about it (way, way more interested than I am in any of the topics relevant to this thread, as I'm sure my "clarifications" have shown.) It sounds to me l...

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With enough will, it can be done. This year I'm DM in marching band, president of latin club, and vice president of mu alpha theta, along with being co captain of academic team/captain of science bowl team. I'm also in GSA and ecology club, and trying to restart chess club. With some creative sched...

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Hentzel runs the Minnesota Quizbowl Alliance and the MN High School Quizbowl League, and their site sometimes has links to tournaments not run on NAQT questions. Unfortunately for colleges, the only one up for this year was Ubu Roi for high schoolers. Generally speaking, Hentzel doesn't actively or...

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There's nothing wrong about playing quizbowl because you derive pleasure from winning. Multiple quizbowl players whom I deeply respect have told me in private that beating other people is why they play. At the end of the day "quizbowl is about learning" and "quizbowl is about letting...

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Hentzel runs the Minnesota Quizbowl Alliance and the MN High School Quizbowl League, and their site sometimes has links to tournaments not run on NAQT questions. Unfortunately for colleges, the only one up for this year was Ubu Roi for high schoolers. Generally speaking, Hentzel doesn't actively or ...

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Fundamentally, good quizbowl generally boils down to "quizbowl where I get points and get to beat people whom I secretly see as in some way inferior." If you seriously think this is why I play quizbowl, you have deep inferiority issues. Anyways, there are many within the quizbowl communit...

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