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Kevin Wang: /* During-tournament trouble */

2021-02-25T18:33:39Z

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Kevin Wang at 16:11, 27 March 2020

2020-03-27T16:11:34Z

Jonah Greenthal: "prevaricate" means "lie"; he may have done that too, but that's not what the sentence was about

2019-03-11T12:17:19Z

"prevaricate" means "lie"; he may have done that too, but that's not what the sentence was about

Mike Sorice: /* During-tournament trouble */

2019-03-11T04:56:23Z

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2019-03-11T04:55:41Z

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2019-03-11T04:55:07Z

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2019-03-11T04:54:17Z

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2019-03-11T04:51:38Z

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Naveed Chowdhury: categories

2015-08-23T23:21:26Z

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 [[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there pondering for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
-Neff's feat of powering a tossup, getting called for conferring, and nearly getting into a fight with Mike Sorice during his first-ever game of quizbowl has since been dubbed the "Donald Taylor hat trick."
+Neff's feat of powering a tossup, getting called for conferring, and nearly getting into a fight with Mike Sorice during his first-ever game of quizbowl has since been dubbed the "'''Donald Taylor hat trick.'''"
 The Sunday portion of the tournament collapsed after seven rounds due to field exhaustion with the slow grind through unenjoyable material. The round seven stats for one of the rooms were lost. The tournament directors abandoned their own event and sent the packet set to a player with instructions to run it himself if he wished to play the promised Monday morning portion of the schedule, as they would not be returning for the second day of their tournament.

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 The event itself was run in a noticeably subpar fashion, which exacerbated the field's disbelief at the question content. The tournament directors made no effort at all to recruit staffers or buzzers prior to the event, and had to sign up any volunteer willing to help them out in a frantic scramble during the NSC. After asking people playing or staffing the tournament before round 1 if they happened to be in possession of buzzers, at least one room was left with no buzzers and was playing slap bowl as a result. Extremely slow and incoherent reader Kirk Jing was forced to read instead of TD due to the lack of available readers. The TDs did not work with the PACE leaders who had keys to the hotel rooms in advance of the event, causing two long delays while rooms were unlocked. The tournament proceeded at a very plodding pace as a result.
-[[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there prevaricating for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
+[[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there pondering for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
 Neff's feat of powering a tossup, getting called for conferring, and nearly getting into a fight with Mike Sorice during his first-ever game of quizbowl has since been dubbed the "Donald Taylor hat trick."

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 The event itself was run in a noticeably subpar fashion, which exacerbated the field's disbelief at the question content. The tournament directors made no effort at all to recruit staffers or buzzers prior to the event, and had to sign up any volunteer willing to help them out in a frantic scramble during the NSC. After asking people playing or staffing the tournament before round 1 if they happened to be in possession of buzzers, at least one room was left with no buzzers and was playing slap bowl as a result. Extremely slow and incoherent reader Kirk Jing was forced to read instead of TD due to the lack of available readers. The TDs did not work with the PACE leaders who had keys to the hotel rooms in advance of the event, causing two long delays while rooms were unlocked. The tournament proceeded at a very plodding pace as a result.
-[[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there prevaricating for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety, an issue itself caused in part by the shitty question failing to differentiate between the book with the latter name and the essay with the former. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
+[[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there prevaricating for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
 Neff's feat of powering a tossup, getting called for conferring, and nearly getting into a fight with Mike Sorice during his first-ever game of quizbowl has since been dubbed the "Donald Taylor hat trick."

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 The event itself was run in a noticeably subpar fashion, which exacerbated the field's disbelief at the question content. The tournament directors made no effort at all to recruit staffers or buzzers prior to the event, and had to sign up any volunteer willing to help them out in a frantic scramble during the NSC. After asking people playing or staffing the tournament before round 1 if they happened to be in possession of buzzers, at least one room was left with no buzzers and was playing slap bowl as a result. Extremely slow and incoherent reader Kirk Jing was forced to read instead of TD due to the lack of available readers. The TDs did not work with the PACE leaders who had keys to the hotel rooms in advance of the event, causing two long delays while rooms were unlocked. The tournament proceeded at a very plodding pace as a result.
-[[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there prevaricating for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety, an issue itself caused in part by the shitty question failing to differentiate between the book with the latter name and the essay with the former. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." While Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
+[[Bruce Arthur]] brought conservative magazine columnist [http://dailycaller.com/author/bneff/ Blake Neff], whom he had met through his Skeeball team, with him to help answer questions on the Dartmouth team's political interests, without informing him of how quizbowl worked beforehand, leading to several instances of saying answers without buzzing or interrupting the other team's bonus. In the second round, aforementioned moderator Kirk Jing illustrated his quality by sitting there prevaricating for over a minute over whether to give [[Mike Sorice]] credit for the answer ''The End of History'' or whether ''The End of History and the Last Man'' was required in its entirety, an issue itself caused in part by the shitty question failing to differentiate between the book with the latter name and the essay with the former. Sorice eventually entered an alternate plea: "Rule one way or another and if it's against me, I protest." Jing's ruling is unclear to this day -- Sorice's recollection is that the ruling was against and then no protest was ever considered (in best "As the writer, editor, moderator, and protest committee, I declare that the question I wrote and edited was correct!" fashion.) Whatever the case, Neff took umbrage at this protest and decided to call Sorice "a bitch," which somewhat predictably led to a challenge to fistfight that was declined.
 Neff's feat of powering a tossup, getting called for conferring, and nearly getting into a fight with Mike Sorice during his first-ever game of quizbowl has since been dubbed the "Donald Taylor hat trick."

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