OSPL 2012-2013 EXPERT - Official Sign Up Post for August

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OSPL 2012-2013 EXPERT - Official Sign Up Post for August

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This is the sign-up sheet for the first round of the Online Skype Practice League (i.e. OSPL) for the 2012-2013 school year. This season is at the Expert level; the first Novice season will begin after Labor Day. OSPL August will run for 4 weeks beginning on either Tuesday or Wednesday, August 14-15. There are four time slots available for matches this season, with all times Eastern: 8 PM Tuesday, 9 PM Tuesday, 8 PM Wednesday, 9 PM Wednesday. If you have scheduling requests, please include that in your sign-up.

If you have not already, please read the OSPL General Announcement post to learn about rules changes, particularly those regarding substitutions and timeliness of playing your scheduled matches.

Teams will be constructed once all players have been confirmed. The winner of this season will not be eligible to play OSPL again until the OSPL Expert Champions League in May. The prize for winning this season, aside from Champions League entry, will be edited into this post at a later date.

In honor of yesterday's victory, I submit these team names to you...
Team List

Lloyd's of London
Sam Blizzard
Shreyas Vissapragada
Alex Pandya
Ian Torres

Solo Savers
Dylan Minarik
Nirav Ilango
DoWon Dan Kim
Rohan Nag

Wembley Wambachs
Collin Parks
Tom Moore
Sameen Belal
Evan Pandya

Morgan's Raiders
Morgan Venkus
Esther Sun
Nicholas Wawrykow
Danish Akbar

Substitutes
Rohan Achar (will be assigned to Tom's team and play for Tom on Matchnight 1)
Michael Sokolow (will be assigned to Sam's team and play for Sam on Matchnight 1)
The remaining teams may nominate one substitute who must be approved prior to playing.

Final: Wambach v Lloyd, week of Sept 4-5.
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I'd like to play
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I'd like to play this. I won't be in the United States for the first week, however.
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I'll play, provided we don't do Illinois open again -_-
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Off To See The Lizard wrote:I'll play, provided we don't do Illinois open again -_-
How do you not like tossups on Karl Popper or Endymion? There should be more!
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Get me in on this please.
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I'm apparently not eligible for novice... Sign me up please.
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Please sign me up
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Paula Pareto Optimality wrote:
Off To See The Lizard wrote:I'll play, provided we don't do Illinois open again -_-
How do you not like tossups on Karl Popper or Endymion? There should be more!
'Cause Karl Popper is a REALLY hard answerline that never comes up at hard high school tournaments

Sign me up.
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I'll play, though I won't be able to make it the first week.
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In light of the ongoing discussion on the first OSPL announcement, I'll play this, rather than novice.

Hopefully I average >0 PPG!
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Considering this is the only time of year I could do this, I guess I'll sign up.
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I'll play
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I'll sign up for this.
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I'd like to play.
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I would like to sign up for this please.

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I would like to join as well.
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I will play.
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I'll play
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I'll take a sub spot.
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like blizzard, I won't be able to play the first week either; I won;'t be free until Sunday, August 19.
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Would the players in the League please email me (greg at historybowl dot com) to let me know their availability for next Tuesday and/or Wednesday, keeping in mind the games will run at either 8 or 9 PM Eastern? I can definitely read Tuesday night for you; I may need to delegate someone else to read on Wednesday as I will be traveling most of the day before 8 PM.
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What is the difficulty of the sets that we are playing on?
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Collegiate. I'll review sets over the weekend.
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OSPL August (Expert) Matchnight 1 will be Wednesday, August 15.

8 PM: Lloyd v Solo
9 PM: Wambach v Morgan

I will do my best to be available to read both matches, but Kara is on standby in case I don't get to my hotel in time. I'll be flying to Tampa Wednesday and introducing approximately 300 Pinellas County social studies teachers to NHBB Thursday.

Matchnight 2: Lloyd v Wambach, Solo v Morgan (time and order to be determined based on player availability)
Matchnight 3: Lloyd v Morgan, Wambach v Solo (ditto above)
Matchnight 4: Final, if necessary (ditto above)
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Those of you who are playing tomorrow, please add Kara Vo on skype. If you need her skype name to add her, message me here or on facebook or email me (greg at historybowl dot com).
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So this packet was hilariously too hard for the field and should be toned down for next week.
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Can you elaborate on the sets we will be using? Also, how was Match One
for everyone?
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PastryBowl wrote:Can you elaborate on the sets we will be using? Also, how was Match One
for everyone?
The set we used last night was a hard college set. I think the scores of 80-70 and 85-45 reflect that. It ran smoothly, other than the fact that the set was waaaaaaaay too hard.
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OSPL this week is on Wednesday again.

Solo v Morgan - 8 PM
Lloyd v Wambach - 9 PM.
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Am I missing something but are we playing this week?
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Euler's Constant wrote:Am I missing something but are we playing this week?
We're playing tonight
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Ok because I never got any message about that
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Finalists, please let me know your preference of playing the final Tuesday or Wednesday night. Thanks!
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The majority of responses I've heard for the final are for having it on Wednesday, so that's what's happening. In any of the finalists see this post, what is your preference for a time? 8 pm or 9?
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MahoningQuizBowler wrote:The majority of responses I've heard for the final are for having it on Wednesday, so that's what's happening. In any of the finalists see this post, what is your preference for a time? 8 pm or 9?
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Congratulations to Collin, Tom, Sameen, and Evan of the Wembley Wambachs for winning tonight's final 305-275 over Sam, Shreyas, Alex, and Ian. Wembley enters the Champions League (fittingly enough) in May.
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