Neg prize - Revision history

Joseph Feldman at 12:36, 11 August 2026

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Previous Tournaments' Neg Prizes

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-'''Neg prizes''' are awards given  (usually) in jest during a tournament's awards ceremony to the player with the most total negs.  When multiple players tie for the award, ties are broken by lowest tossup/interrupt ratio.  While most team and individual prizes consist of various trophies and books, neg prizes can be, and often are, just about anything and are often chosen to be humorous.</onlyinclude>
+'''Neg prizes''' are awards given  (usually) in jest during a tournament's awards ceremony to the player with the most total negs.  When multiple players tie for the award, ties are broken in various ways: by lowest tossup/interrupt ratio, by flipping a coin, or by sawing the prize in half or some other humorous method. While most team and individual prizes consist of various trophies and books, neg prizes can be, and often are, just about anything and are often chosen to be humorous.</onlyinclude>
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 *A copy of ''Breaking Dawn'' (La Jolla Rocket Surgery 2011)
 *A book on hydrocephaly and ''Accounting Terminology in the PRC and USA''--the hosts, anticipating that [[Lucas Brown]] would win the prize yet again, provided two neg prizes so that somebody else would have a turn.  The person with the second most negs declined his prize.  (NAQT state championship, Southern CA, 2011)
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 '''Neg prizes''' are awards given  (usually) in jest during a tournament's awards ceremony to the player with the most total negs.  When multiple players tie for the award, ties are broken by lowest tossup/interrupt ratio.  While most team and individual prizes consist of various trophies and books, neg prizes can be, and often are, just about anything and are often chosen to be humorous.</onlyinclude>
 ==Previous Tournaments' Neg Prizes==

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-'''Neg prizes''' are awards given  (usually) in jest during a tournament's awards ceremony to the player with the most total negs.  When multiple players tie for the award, ties are broken by lowest tossup/interrupt ratio.  While most team and individual prizes consist of various trophies and books, neg prizes can be, and often are, just about anything.
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 ==Previous Tournaments' Neg Prizes==
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 *A California HS Exit Exam study guide (Arcadia Carnal Embrace 2011)
 *A copy of ''Breaking Dawn'' (La Jolla Rocket Surgery 2011)
-*A book on hydrocephaly and ''Accounting Terminology in the PRC and USA''--the hosts, anticipating that [[Lucas Brown]] would win the prize yet again, provided two neg prizes so that somebody else would have a turn.  The #2 negger declined his prize.  (NAQT state championship, Southern CA, 2011)
+*A book on hydrocephaly and ''Accounting Terminology in the PRC and USA''--the hosts, anticipating that [[Lucas Brown]] would win the prize yet again, provided two neg prizes so that somebody else would have a turn.  The person with the second most negs declined his prize.  (NAQT state championship, Southern CA, 2011)
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 * A signed picture of Mark Sanchez's butt fumble ([[Kansas State]] mirror of [[DRAGOON]]).
 * All seven volumes of ''In Search of Lost Time'' in the original French. ([[Caltech]] mirror of STIMPY)
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 * A poster of Justin Bieber ([[Truman State]] site of [[2013 ACF Fall]]).
 * A signed picture of Mark Sanchez's butt fumble ([[Kansas State]] mirror of [[DRAGOON]]).
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 * An L. Ron Hubbard book containing the autograph of [[Charles Meigs]], which had been personalized for [[Chris Ray]] in expectation of Ray obtaining the neg prize ([[Chicago Open History Tournament|2008 July Crisis]]) (in actuality, [[Trevor Davis]] won the neg prize, with Chris Ray second).
 * ''Pregnant with the Billionaire's Baby'' ([[WUSTL]] mirror of Michigan Fall 2013).
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 *A copy of Ayn Rand's [[The Fountainhead]] signed by [[Steve Feldman]] ([[GDS]] fall tournament 2008 (?))
 *A videotape on teamwork, courtesy of Bob the Builder ([[WCI]] 2009)
 [[Lucas Brown]] is infamous in the southern California circuit for winning the neg prize at every southern CA tournament he attended, save two (UCLA's 2010 mirror of the New Trier Varisty tournament and ACF Fall 2010).  Some of his neg prizes are: