Good morning, quizbowl
Good morning, quizbowl
Today, there will be 13 SCTs spread across three countries. The day begins quietly with me, sitting alone in my room, five hours ahead of the rest of you, printing out scoresheets. Before chaos ensues thirteen times, one after another, I want to wish good luck to all the teams competing and all the people trying to run these tournaments. May everything go smoothly!
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
To you as well! We are just about to embark on our trip to Canada to get soundly beaten!Kyle wrote:Today, there will be 13 SCTs spread across three countries. The day begins quietly with me, sitting alone in my room, five hours ahead of the rest of you, printing out scoresheets. Before chaos ensues thirteen times, one after another, I want to wish good luck to all the teams competing and all the people trying to run these tournaments. May everything go smoothly!
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Today will be the first time in my six-year collegiate quizbowl career that I will not be playing SCT. Not sure how I feel about that. For a while it's ironically been my favorite tournament.
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Too late, snowpocalypse.Kyle wrote:May everything go smoothly!
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
MORE LIKE SNOWHIO STATE, AMIRITE?
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
About that... We're sitting in a ditch right now. Hooray ice.Sedma wrote:Too late, snowpocalypse.Kyle wrote:May everything go smoothly!
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
It was after the snowpocalypse. They had to get to the SCT power station.
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
How about a six-way tie for second place among six of our eight teams?
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Good morning, quizbowl!
Local time: 6:20 am.
Protest committee status: awake, sort of.
(Note: there will not actually be a protest committee liveblog itt.)
Local time: 6:20 am.
Protest committee status: awake, sort of.
(Note: there will not actually be a protest committee liveblog itt.)
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Is there a number other than the 888 # I can call? The 888 number is not working for me up in Canada and I need a number to call.
Long distance is not an issue, my cell plan can call anywhere in North America.
Long distance is not an issue, my cell plan can call anywhere in North America.
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
You think it's bad with snow? Snow, huh? I have to deal with RAIN.
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Northeast SCT is happening despite lack of Dartmouth. Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building. One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files; one person weeps more and provides unpassworded versions and prays.
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One of these things was accomplished by someone who is not only not a member of Harvard A, but not even a student at Harvard, and another was accomplished by someone not a member of Harvard A. Bonding may have to wait.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building.
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Andy Watkins has superglued his teammates together. Let's see what happens!
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
I LIKE TO PRETENDNot That Kind of Christian!! wrote:One of these things was accomplished by someone who is not only not a member of Harvard A, but not even a student at Harvard, and another was accomplished by someone not a member of Harvard A. Bonding may have to wait.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Harvard A has bonded wonderfully over combined efforts: one person makes a DII round robin to account for no more Dartmouth; another prints it; a third fetches it from the faraway building.
Lunch is going to be after this round. DII is running about a round behind, in no small part because our teams vanish at strange intervals. I wish I could read a round to this empty room.
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Let's hope he used the right bonding angles.FredMorlan wrote:Andy Watkins has superglued his teammates together. Let's see what happens!
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Four-way tie for one spot in the top bracket? Nothing we can't handle in the SCT of Total Parity. (Also, regarding this parity, the variance seems to go up when seven of your eight teams have bonus conversion in single digits)
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
If this problem recurs, check out http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html for a Mac utility that can open passworded zips (and is better than the default OS X unarchiver... though it can be easily uninstalled after the tournament if people prefer the old one.) I'd recommend every TD who's running a tournament with electronic reading to have that on hand.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:...One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files...
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
There's alsoCrazy Andy Watkins wrote:...One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files...
if you don't want to download anything.Mike Sorice, in that other thread, also wrote:just launch the terminal and use "unzip -p [password goes here] [name of zip file goes here]".
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Yes, there's that too, if people are, like, down with the terminal.
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Re: Good morning, quizbowl
Don't worry; having been a mac-using quizbowler for some years, I managed to pull the name of the unarchiver after only a minute or so - no actual weeping was involved.Captain Sinico wrote:If this problem recurs, check out http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html for a Mac utility that can open passworded zips (and is better than the default OS X unarchiver... though it can be easily uninstalled after the tournament if people prefer the old one.) I'd recommend every TD who's running a tournament with electronic reading to have that on hand.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:...One person weeps at the Mac inability to open passworded zip files...
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